From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y 1/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if a vCPU ends up in long mode without PAE enabled
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 02:30:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110072540.551383-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107054141-failed-6.1-115f9405a2ed@kernel.org>
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
[ Upstream commit 72e2fb24a0b0528bcc16a8f6ad2cf336ac361525 ]
Promote the ASSERT(), which is quite dead code in KVM, into a KVM_BUG_ON()
for KVM's sanity check that CR4.PAE=1 if the vCPU is in long mode when
performing a walk of guest page tables. The sanity is quite cheap since
neither EFER nor CR4.PAE requires a VMREAD, especially relative to the
cost of walking the guest page tables.
More importantly, the sanity check would have prevented the true badness
fixed by commit 112e66017bff ("KVM: nVMX: add missing consistency checks
for CR0 and CR4"). The missed consistency check resulted in some versions
of KVM corrupting the on-stack guest_walker structure due to KVM thinking
there are 4/5 levels of page tables, but wiring up the MMU hooks to point
at the paging32 implementation, which only allocates space for two levels
of page tables in "struct guest_walker32".
Queue a page fault for injection if the assertion fails, as both callers,
FNAME(gva_to_gpa) and FNAME(walk_addr_generic), assume that walker.fault
contains sane info on a walk failure. E.g. not populating the fault info
could result in KVM consuming and/or exposing uninitialized stack data
before the vCPU is kicked out to userspace, which doesn't happen until
KVM checks for KVM_REQ_VM_DEAD on the next enter.
Move the check below the initialization of "pte_access" so that the
aforementioned to-be-injected page fault doesn't consume uninitialized
stack data. The information _shouldn't_ reach the guest or userspace,
but there's zero downside to being paranoid in this case.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230729004722.1056172-9-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Stable-dep-of: 115f9405a2ed ("KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM attempts to walk more levels than the MMU has")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
index 952f7e9b64fad..42d459370f781 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
}
#endif
walker->max_level = walker->level;
- ASSERT(!(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu)));
/*
* FIXME: on Intel processors, loads of the PDPTE registers for PAE paging
@@ -355,6 +354,17 @@ static int FNAME(walk_addr_generic)(struct guest_walker *walker,
nested_access = (have_ad ? PFERR_WRITE_MASK : 0) | PFERR_USER_MASK;
pte_access = ~0;
+
+ /*
+ * Queue a page fault for injection if this assertion fails, as callers
+ * assume that walker.fault contains sane info on a walk failure. I.e.
+ * avoid making the situation worse by inducing even worse badness
+ * between when the assertion fails and when KVM kicks the vCPU out to
+ * userspace (because the VM is bugged).
+ */
+ if (KVM_BUG_ON(is_long_mode(vcpu) && !is_pae(vcpu), vcpu->kvm))
+ goto error;
+
++walker->level;
do {
--
2.53.0
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