From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>,
Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y] KVM: nSVM: Reject KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE if L1 has EFER.LMA=1 && EFER.LME=0
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 08:24:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106132304.65484-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110436-sequel-runner-492c@gregkh>
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ Upstream commit 5dc500a354cc8e109df678076ae3488094649468 ]
Reject KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE if the incoming L1 host state has what is
effectively an impossible EFER combination of LMA=1 but LME=0, i.e. if the
state says long mode is active but not enabled. Unlike VMX, SVM doesn't
have an explicit consistent check for the illegal combination; presumably
hardware simply ignores EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0.
Unfortunately, KVM doesn't ignore EFER.LMA in this case and consumes the
illegal state when constructing the shadow MMU for L2. E.g. if userspace
also clears CR4.PAE, then kvm_calc_cpu_role() will compute a role with 4 or
5 levels of paging, but shadow_mmu_init_context() will wire up the MMU to
use the paging32 template, which maxes out its levels at 2.
Note, the "real badness" is effectively the same as what happened with the
nVMX bug fixed by commit 112e66017bff ("KVM: nVMX: add missing consistency
checks for CR0 and CR4"). Unfortunately, the sanity check added by commit
72e2fb24a0b0 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if a vCPU ends up in long mode
without PAE enabled") doesn't work for this case, since L2 state is active
at the time of the page fault, but it's L1 that has the bad state.
Fixes: cc440cdad5b7 ("KVM: nSVM: implement KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE and KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stefan Teodorescu <fane@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902232028.2767071-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ sashal: adjusted context to retain the two-argument __nested_vmcb_check_save() helper instead of nested_vmcb_check_save() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 064a2bb9cf8ed..49cc457a4c370 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -1880,6 +1880,7 @@ static int svm_set_nested_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (!(save->cr0 & X86_CR0_PG) ||
!(save->cr0 & X86_CR0_PE) ||
(save->rflags & X86_EFLAGS_VM) ||
+ ((save->efer & EFER_LMA) && !(save->efer & EFER_LME)) ||
!__nested_vmcb_check_save(vcpu, &save_cached))
goto out_free;
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-04 19:17 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Reject KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE if L1 has EFER.LMA=1" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-06 13:24 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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