While not obivous, kvm_vcpu_reset() leaves the nested mode by clearing 'vcpu->arch.hflags' but it does so without all the required housekeeping.
On SVM, it is possible to have a vCPU reset while in guest mode because unlike VMX, on SVM, INIT's are not latched in SVM non root mode and in addition to that L1 doesn't have to intercept triple fault, which should also trigger L1's reset if happens in L2 while L1 didn't intercept it.
If one of the above conditions happen, KVM will continue to use vmcb02 while not having in the guest mode.
Later the IA32_EFER will be cleared which will lead to freeing of the nested guest state which will (correctly) free the vmcb02, but since KVM still uses it (incorrectly) this will lead to a use after free and kernel crash.
This issue is assigned CVE-2022-3344
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky mlevitsk@redhat.com --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 316ab1d5317f92..3fd900504e683b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -11694,8 +11694,18 @@ void kvm_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event) WARN_ON_ONCE(!init_event && (old_cr0 || kvm_read_cr3(vcpu) || kvm_read_cr4(vcpu)));
+ /* + * SVM doesn't unconditionally VM-Exit on INIT and SHUTDOWN, thus it's + * possible to INIT the vCPU while L2 is active. Force the vCPU back + * into L1 as EFER.SVME is cleared on INIT (along with all other EFER + * bits), i.e. virtualization is disabled. + */ + if (is_guest_mode(vcpu)) + kvm_leave_nested(vcpu); + kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, init_event);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(is_guest_mode(vcpu) || is_smm(vcpu)); vcpu->arch.hflags = 0;
vcpu->arch.smi_pending = 0;