From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:15:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: KVM: x86: Check for invalid/obsolete root *after* making MMU pages available
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2abd5287f08319fa35764566b15c6e22cb1068db;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

KVM: x86: Check for invalid/obsolete root *after* making MMU pages available

Check for a "stale" page fault, i.e. for an invalid and/or obsolete root,
after making MMU pages available for the shadow MMU.  If reclaiming shadow
pages zaps an in-use root, i.e. marks it invalid, then KVM will attempt to
map memory into an invalid root.  On its own, populating an invalid root is
"fine", but because child shadow pages inherit their parent's role, any
children created during the map/fetch will be created as invalid pages,
thus violating KVM's invariant that invalid pages are never on the list of
active MMU pages.

Note, the underlying flaw has existed since KVM first started tracking
invalid roots in 2008 (commit 2e53d63acba7, "KVM: MMU: ignore zapped root
pagetables"), but the true badness only came along in 2020 (Linux 5.9)
with the invariant that invalid shadow pages can't be on the list of
active pages.

Note #2, inheriting role.invalid when creating child shadow pages is also
far from ideal; that flaw will be addressed separately.

Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Fixes: f95eec9bed76 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Don't put invalid SPs back on the list of active pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 234d0a95abf53..41f92ed1ca377 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -4852,16 +4852,17 @@ static int direct_page_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault
 	if (r != RET_PF_CONTINUE)
 		return r;
 
-	r = RET_PF_RETRY;
 	write_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
 
-	if (is_page_fault_stale(vcpu, fault))
-		goto out_unlock;
-
 	r = make_mmu_pages_available(vcpu);
 	if (r)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	if (is_page_fault_stale(vcpu, fault)) {
+		r = RET_PF_RETRY;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
 	r = direct_map(vcpu, fault);
 
 out_unlock:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
index df3ae0c7ec2c3..1ba840a73b7ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -864,15 +864,17 @@ static int FNAME(page_fault)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_page_fault *fault
 	}
 #endif
 
-	r = RET_PF_RETRY;
 	write_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
 
-	if (is_page_fault_stale(vcpu, fault))
-		goto out_unlock;
-
 	r = make_mmu_pages_available(vcpu);
 	if (r)
 		goto out_unlock;
+
+	if (is_page_fault_stale(vcpu, fault)) {
+		r = RET_PF_RETRY;
+		goto out_unlock;
+	}
+
 	r = FNAME(fetch)(vcpu, fault, &walker);
 
 out_unlock: