Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: X86: Initialize 'fault' in kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error().

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 02:47:36PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022, Yu Zhang wrote:
> > kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error() was introduced to fixup the error code(
> > e.g., to add RSVD flag) and inject the #PF to the guest, when guest
> > MAXPHYADDR is smaller than the host one.
> > 
> > When it comes to nested, L0 is expected to intercept and fix up the #PF
> > and then inject to L2 directly if
> > - L2.MAXPHYADDR < L0.MAXPHYADDR and
> > - L1 has no intention to intercept L2's #PF (e.g., L2 and L1 have the
> >   same MAXPHYADDR value && L1 is using EPT for L2),
> > instead of constructing a #PF VM Exit to L1. Currently, with PFEC_MASK
> > and PFEC_MATCH both set to 0 in vmcs02, the interception and injection
> > may happen on all L2 #PFs.
> > 
> > However, failing to initialize 'fault' in kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error()
> > may cause the fault.async_page_fault being NOT zeroed, and later the #PF
> > being treated as a nested async page fault, and then being injected to L1.
> > So just fix it by initialize the 'fault' value in the beginning.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> > Fixes: 897861479c064 ("KVM: x86: Add helper functions for illegal GPA checking and page fault injection")
> > Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216178
> > Reported-by: Yang Lixiao <lixiao.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > index 031678eff28e..3246b3c9dfb3 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > @@ -12983,7 +12983,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_spec_ctrl_test_value);
> >  void kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, u16 error_code)
> >  {
> >  	struct kvm_mmu *mmu = vcpu->arch.walk_mmu;
> > -	struct x86_exception fault;
> > +	struct x86_exception fault = {0};
> >  	u64 access = error_code &
> >  		(PFERR_WRITE_MASK | PFERR_FETCH_MASK | PFERR_USER_MASK);
> 
> As stupid as it may be to intentionally not fix the uninitialized data in a robust
> way, I'd actually prefer to manually clear fault.async_page_fault instead of
> zero-initializing the struct.  Unlike a similar bug fix in commit 159e037d2e36
> ("KVM: x86: Fully initialize 'struct kvm_lapic_irq' in kvm_pv_kick_cpu_op()"),
> this code actually cares about async_page_fault being false as opposed to just
> being _initialized_.
> 
> And if another field is added to struct x86_exception in the future, leaving the
> struct uninitialized means that if such a patch were to miss this case, running
> with various sanitizers should in theory be able to detect such a bug.  I suspect
> no one has found this with syzkaller due to the need to opt into running with
> allow_smaller_maxphyaddr=1.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index f389691d8c04..aeed737b55c2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -12996,6 +12996,7 @@ void kvm_fixup_and_inject_pf_error(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, u16 error_c
>                 fault.error_code = error_code;
>                 fault.nested_page_fault = false;
>                 fault.address = gva;
> +               fault.async_page_fault = false;
>         }
>         vcpu->arch.walk_mmu->inject_page_fault(vcpu, &fault);
>  }
> 

Fair enough. Thanks!

B.R.
Yu



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