Undesired triple fault gets injected to L1 guest on SVM when L2 is launched with certain CR3 values. It seems the mmu_check_root() check in fast_pgd_switch() is wrong: first of all we don't know if 'new_pgd' is a GPA or a nested GPA and, in case it is a nested GPA, we can't check it with kvm_is_visible_gfn(). The problematic code path is: nested_svm_vmrun() ... nested_prepare_vmcb_save() kvm_set_cr3(..., nested_vmcb->save.cr3) kvm_mmu_new_pgd() ... mmu_check_root() -> TRIPLE FAULT The mmu_check_root() check in fast_pgd_switch() seems to be superfluous even for non-nested case: when GPA is outside of the visible range cached_root_available() will fail for non-direct roots (as we can't have a matching one on the list) and we don't seem to care for direct ones. Also, raising #TF immediately when a non-existent GFN is written to CR3 doesn't seem to mach architecture behavior. Fixes: 7c390d350f8b ("kvm: x86: Add fast CR3 switch code path") Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- - The patch fixes the immediate issue and doesn't seem to break any tests even with shadow PT but I'm not sure I properly understood why the check was there in the first place. Please review! --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c index 76817d13c86e..286c74d2ae8d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c @@ -4277,8 +4277,7 @@ static bool fast_pgd_switch(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t new_pgd, */ if (mmu->shadow_root_level >= PT64_ROOT_4LEVEL && mmu->root_level >= PT64_ROOT_4LEVEL) - return !mmu_check_root(vcpu, new_pgd >> PAGE_SHIFT) && - cached_root_available(vcpu, new_pgd, new_role); + return cached_root_available(vcpu, new_pgd, new_role); return false; } -- 2.25.4