From: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
The preemption timer for nested VMX is emulated by hrtimer which is started on L2
entry, stopped on L2 exit and evaluated via the check_nested_events hook. However,
nested_vmx_exit_handled is always returning true for preemption timer vmexit. Then,
the L1 preemption timer vmexit is captured and be treated as a L2 preemption
timer vmexit, causing NULL pointer dereferences or worse in the L1 guest's
vmexit handler:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [< (null)>] (null)
PGD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
? kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer+0x47/0x90 [kvm]
handle_preemption_timer+0xe/0x20 [kvm_intel]
vmx_handle_exit+0x169/0x15a0 [kvm_intel]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd5d/0x19d0 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xdee/0x19d0 [kvm]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd5d/0x19d0 [kvm]
? vcpu_load+0x1c/0x60 [kvm]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x57/0x260 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d3/0x7c0 [kvm]
do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x6a0
? __fget_light+0x2a/0x90
SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x180
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Code: Bad RIP value.
RIP [< (null)>] (null)
RSP <ffff8800b5263c48>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace 9c70c48b1a2bc66e ]---
This can be reproduced readily by preemption timer enabled on L0 and disabled
on L1.
Return false since preemption timer vmexits must never be reflected to L2.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index e564fa2c7ac8..f6e5cc679898 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -8041,6 +8041,8 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12, SECONDARY_EXEC_XSAVES);
case EXIT_REASON_PCOMMIT:
return nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12, SECONDARY_EXEC_PCOMMIT);
+ case EXIT_REASON_PREEMPTION_TIMER:
+ return false;
default:
return true;
}
--
1.8.3.1
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