6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
commit 46d6c6f3ef0eaff71c2db6d77d4e2ebb7adac34f upstream.
When preparing vmcb02 for nested VMRUN (or state restore), "enter" guest mode prior to initializing the MMU for nested NPT so that guest_mode is set in the MMU's role. KVM's model is that all L2 MMUs are tagged with guest_mode, as the behavior of hypervisor MMUs tends to be significantly different than kernel MMUs.
Practically speaking, the bug is relatively benign, as KVM only directly queries role.guest_mode in kvm_mmu_free_guest_mode_roots() and kvm_mmu_page_ad_need_write_protect(), which SVM doesn't use, and in paths that are optimizations (mmu_page_zap_pte() and shadow_mmu_try_split_huge_pages()).
And while the role is incorprated into shadow page usage, because nested NPT requires KVM to be using NPT for L1, reusing shadow pages across L1 and L2 is impossible as L1 MMUs will always have direct=1, while L2 MMUs will have direct=0.
Hoist the TLB processing and setting of HF_GUEST_MASK to the beginning of the flow instead of forcing guest_mode in the MMU, as nothing in nested_vmcb02_prepare_control() between the old and new locations touches TLB flush requests or HF_GUEST_MASK, i.e. there's no reason to present inconsistent vCPU state to the MMU.
Fixes: 69cb877487de ("KVM: nSVM: move MMU setup to nested_prepare_vmcb_control") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Yosry Ahmed yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed yosry.ahmed@linux.dev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250130010825.220346-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c @@ -5591,7 +5591,7 @@ void kvm_init_shadow_npt_mmu(struct kvm_ union kvm_mmu_page_role root_role;
/* NPT requires CR0.PG=1. */ - WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_role.base.direct); + WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_role.base.direct || !cpu_role.base.guest_mode);
root_role = cpu_role.base; root_role.level = kvm_mmu_get_tdp_level(vcpu); --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c @@ -646,6 +646,11 @@ static void nested_vmcb02_prepare_contro u32 pause_count12; u32 pause_thresh12;
+ nested_svm_transition_tlb_flush(vcpu); + + /* Enter Guest-Mode */ + enter_guest_mode(vcpu); + /* * Filled at exit: exit_code, exit_code_hi, exit_info_1, exit_info_2, * exit_int_info, exit_int_info_err, next_rip, insn_len, insn_bytes. @@ -762,11 +767,6 @@ static void nested_vmcb02_prepare_contro } }
- nested_svm_transition_tlb_flush(vcpu); - - /* Enter Guest-Mode */ - enter_guest_mode(vcpu); - /* * Merge guest and host intercepts - must be called with vcpu in * guest-mode to take effect.