From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Relax canonical checks on some arch msrs
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:01:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240725150110.327601-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com> (raw)
Recently we came up upon a failure where likely the guest writes
0xff4547ceb1600000 to MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE and later on, qemu
sets this value via KVM_PUT_MSRS, and is rejected by the
kernel, likely due to not being canonical in 4 level paging.
I did some reverse engineering and to my surprise I found out
that both Intel and AMD have very loose checks in regard to
non canonical addresses written to this and several other msrs,
when the CPU supports 5 level paging.
Patch #1 addresses this, making KVM tolerate this.
Patch #2 is just a fix for a semi theoretical bug, found
while trying to debug the issue.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
Maxim Levitsky (2):
KVM: x86: relax canonical checks for some x86 architectural msrs
KVM: SVM: fix emulation of msr reads/writes of MSR_FS_BASE and
MSR_GS_BASE
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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2.26.3
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-25 15:01 Maxim Levitsky [this message]
2024-07-25 15:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: relax canonical checks for some x86 architectural msrs Maxim Levitsky
2024-07-26 6:50 ` Chao Gao
2024-07-26 15:08 ` mlevitsk
2024-07-25 15:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: fix emulation of msr reads/writes of MSR_FS_BASE and MSR_GS_BASE Maxim Levitsky
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