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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 5.10.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 02:44:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110074259.559852-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107061520-failed-5.10-115f9405a2ed@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 3778070381a8b..0db6414300d2d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ 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
@@ -361,6 +360,17 @@ 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


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-10  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07 11:15 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM attempts to walk more levels than the MMU has" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-10  7:44 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-11-10  7:44   ` [PATCH 5.10.y 2/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Bug the VM if KVM attempts to walk more levels than the MMU has Sasha Levin

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