On AMD processors, in PAE 32bit mode, nested KVM instances don't work. The L0 host get a kernel OOPS, which is related to arch.mmu->pae_root being NULL. The reason for this is that when setting up nested KVM instance, arch.mmu is set to &arch.guest_mmu (while normally, it would be &arch.root_mmu). However, the initialization and allocation of pae_root only creates it in root_mmu. KVM code (ie. in mmu_alloc_shadow_roots) then accesses arch.mmu->pae_root, which is the unallocated arch.guest_mmu->pae_root. This fix just allocates (and frees) pae_root in both guest_mmu and root_mmu (and also lm_root if it was allocated). The allocation is subject to previous restrictions ie. it won't allocate anything on 64-bit and AFAIK not on Intel. See bug 203923 for details. Signed-off-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Jiri Palecek <jpalecek@xxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 24843cf49579..efa8285bb56d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -5592,13 +5592,13 @@ slot_handle_leaf(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL, lock_flush_tlb); } -static void free_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +static void free_mmu_pages(struct kvm_mmu *mmu) { - free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->arch.mmu->pae_root); - free_page((unsigned long)vcpu->arch.mmu->lm_root); + free_page((unsigned long)mmu->pae_root); + free_page((unsigned long)mmu->lm_root); } -static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu *mmu) { struct page *page; int i; @@ -5619,9 +5619,9 @@ static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) if (!page) return -ENOMEM; - vcpu->arch.mmu->pae_root = page_address(page); + mmu->pae_root = page_address(page); for (i = 0; i < 4; ++i) - vcpu->arch.mmu->pae_root[i] = INVALID_PAGE; + mmu->pae_root[i] = INVALID_PAGE; return 0; } @@ -5629,6 +5629,7 @@ static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) int kvm_mmu_create(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { uint i; + int ret; vcpu->arch.mmu = &vcpu->arch.root_mmu; vcpu->arch.walk_mmu = &vcpu->arch.root_mmu; @@ -5646,7 +5647,19 @@ int kvm_mmu_create(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) vcpu->arch.guest_mmu.prev_roots[i] = KVM_MMU_ROOT_INFO_INVALID; vcpu->arch.nested_mmu.translate_gpa = translate_nested_gpa; - return alloc_mmu_pages(vcpu); + + ret = alloc_mmu_pages(vcpu, &vcpu->arch.guest_mmu); + if (ret) + return ret; + + ret = alloc_mmu_pages(vcpu, &vcpu->arch.root_mmu); + if (ret) + goto fail_allocate_root; + + return ret; + fail_allocate_root: + free_mmu_pages(&vcpu->arch.guest_mmu); + return ret; } static void kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_pages_in_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, @@ -6102,7 +6115,8 @@ unsigned long kvm_mmu_calculate_default_mmu_pages(struct kvm *kvm) void kvm_mmu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { kvm_mmu_unload(vcpu); - free_mmu_pages(vcpu); + free_mmu_pages(&vcpu->arch.root_mmu); + free_mmu_pages(&vcpu->arch.guest_mmu); mmu_free_memory_caches(vcpu); } -- 2.23.0.rc1