From 41e7ed64d86db351a94063596b478a0bfc040258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kiszka Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:05:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Disable preemption while reading from shadow VMCS In order to access the shadow VMCS, we need to load it. At this point, vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs and the actually loaded one start to differ. If we now get preempted by Linux, vmx_vcpu_put and, on return, the vmx_vcpu_load will work against the wrong vmcs. That can cause copy_shadow_to_vmcs12 to corrupt the vmcs12 state. Fix the issue by disabling preemption during the copy operation. copy_vmcs12_to_shadow is safe from this issue as it is executed by vmx_vcpu_run when preemption is already disabled before vmentry. This bug is exposed by running Jailhouse within KVM on CPUs with shadow VMCS support. Jailhouse never expects an interrupt pending vmexit, but the bug can cause it if, after copy_shadow_to_vmcs12 is preempted, the active VMCS happens to have the virtual interrupt pending flag set in the CPU-based execution controls. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index a8b76c4c95e2..a0f78dbaabee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -6426,6 +6426,8 @@ static void copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) const unsigned long *fields = shadow_read_write_fields; const int num_fields = max_shadow_read_write_fields; + preempt_disable(); + vmcs_load(shadow_vmcs); for (i = 0; i < num_fields; i++) { @@ -6449,6 +6451,8 @@ static void copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) vmcs_clear(shadow_vmcs); vmcs_load(vmx->loaded_vmcs->vmcs); + + preempt_enable(); } static void copy_vmcs12_to_shadow(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) -- 2.20.1