On Mon, Oct 13, 2025, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
[ Upstream commit e750f85391286a4c8100275516973324b621a269 ]
When completing emulation of instruction that generated a userspace exit for I/O, don't recheck L1 intercepts as KVM has already finished that phase of instruction execution, i.e. has already committed to allowing L2 to perform I/O. If L1 (or host userspace) modifies the I/O permission bitmaps during the exit to userspace, KVM will treat the access as being intercepted despite already having emulated the I/O access.
Pivot on EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE to detect that KVM is completing emulation. Of the three users of EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE, only complete_emulated_io() (the intended "recipient") can reach the code in question. gp_interception()'s use is mutually exclusive with is_guest_mode(), and complete_emulated_insn_gp() unconditionally pairs EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE with EMULTYPE_SKIP.
The bad behavior was detected by a syzkaller program that toggles port I/O interception during the userspace I/O exit, ultimately resulting in a WARN on vcpu->arch.pio.count being non-zero due to KVM no completing emulation of the I/O instruction.
WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 1083 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:8039 emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm] Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 1083 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-c1610d2d66b1-next-vm #74 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:emulator_pio_in_out+0x154/0x170 [kvm] PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace:
<TASK> kvm_fast_pio+0xd6/0x1d0 [kvm] vmx_handle_exit+0x149/0x610 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xda8/0x1ac0 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x244/0x8c0 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0x5d/0xc60 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK>
Reported-by: syzbot+cc2032ba16cc2018ca25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68790db4.a00a0220.3af5df.0020.GAE@google.com Fixes: 8a76d7f25f8f ("KVM: x86: Add x86 callback for intercept check") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250715190638.1899116-1-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com [ is_guest_mode() was open coded ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
Acked-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com
Thanks Sasha!