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KVM: x86: Add SRCU protection for reading PDPTRs in __get_sregs2()
authorVasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:28:01 +0000 (01:28 +0300)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:09:59 +0000 (15:09 -0800)
commit95d848dc7e639988dbb385a8cba9b484607cf98c
tree8dcf5a3d1e2b5523c038be4c4f0ef4af28e8bc85
parent062768f426895b958417c85582826e20c44f477c
KVM: x86: Add SRCU protection for reading PDPTRs in __get_sregs2()

Add SRCU read-side protection when reading PDPTR registers in
__get_sregs2().

Reading PDPTRs may trigger access to guest memory:
kvm_pdptr_read() -> svm_cache_reg() -> load_pdptrs() ->
kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page() -> kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot()

kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot() dereferences memslots via __kvm_memslots(),
which uses srcu_dereference_check() and requires either kvm->srcu or
kvm->slots_lock to be held. Currently only vcpu->mutex is held,
triggering lockdep warning:

=============================
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot
6.12.59+ #3 Not tainted

include/linux/kvm_host.h:1062 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by syz.5.1717/15100:
 #0: ff1100002f4b00b0 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x1d5/0x1590

Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0xf0/0x120 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e3/0x270 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6824
 __kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:1062 [inline]
 __kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:1059 [inline]
 kvm_vcpu_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:1076 [inline]
 kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot+0x518/0x5e0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2617
 kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page+0x27/0x50 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3302
 load_pdptrs+0xff/0x4b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1065
 svm_cache_reg+0x1c9/0x230 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:1688
 kvm_pdptr_read arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h:141 [inline]
 __get_sregs2 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11784 [inline]
 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x3e20/0x4aa0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:6279
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x856/0x1590 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4663
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18b/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xbd/0x1d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6dba94035203 ("KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_SREGS2 / KVM_SET_SREGS2")
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123222801.646123-1-kovalev@altlinux.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c