Free vCPUs before freeing any VM state, as both SVM and VMX may access VM state when "freeing" a vCPU that is currently "in" L2, i.e. that needs to be kicked out of nested guest mode. Commit 6fcee03df6a1 ("KVM: x86: avoid loading a vCPU after .vm_destroy was called") partially fixed the issue, but for unknown reasons only moved the MMU unloading before VM destruction. Complete the change, and free all vCPU state prior to destroying VM state, as nVMX accesses even more state than nSVM. In addition to the AVIC, KVM can hit a use-after-free on MSR filters: kvm_msr_allowed+0x4c/0xd0 __kvm_set_msr+0x12d/0x1e0 kvm_set_msr+0x19/0x40 load_vmcs12_host_state+0x2d8/0x6e0 [kvm_intel] nested_vmx_vmexit+0x715/0xbd0 [kvm_intel] nested_vmx_free_vcpu+0x33/0x50 [kvm_intel] vmx_free_vcpu+0x54/0xc0 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x28/0xf0 kvm_vcpu_destroy+0x12/0x50 kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x12c/0x1c0 kvm_put_kvm+0x263/0x3c0 kvm_vm_release+0x21/0x30 and an upcoming fix to process injectable interrupts on nested VM-Exit will access the PIC: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000090 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page CPU: 23 UID: 1000 PID: 2658 Comm: kvm-nx-lpage-re RIP: 0010:kvm_cpu_has_extint+0x2f/0x60 [kvm] Call Trace: <TASK> kvm_cpu_has_injectable_intr+0xe/0x60 [kvm] nested_vmx_vmexit+0x2d7/0xdf0 [kvm_intel] nested_vmx_free_vcpu+0x40/0x50 [kvm_intel] vmx_vcpu_free+0x2d/0x80 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x2d/0x130 [kvm] kvm_destroy_vcpus+0x8a/0x100 [kvm] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0xa7/0x1d0 [kvm] kvm_destroy_vm+0x172/0x300 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_release+0x31/0x50 [kvm] Inarguably, both nSVM and nVMX need to be fixed, but punt on those cleanups for the moment. Conceptually, vCPUs should be freed before VM state. Assets like the I/O APIC and PIC _must_ be allocated before vCPUs are created, so it stands to reason that they must be freed _after_ vCPUs are destroyed. Reported-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@xxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240703175618.2304869-2-aaronlewis@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rick P Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 58b82d6fd77c..045c61cc7e54 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -12890,11 +12890,11 @@ void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm) mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock); } kvm_unload_vcpu_mmus(kvm); + kvm_destroy_vcpus(kvm); kvm_x86_call(vm_destroy)(kvm); kvm_free_msr_filter(srcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.msr_filter, &kvm->srcu, 1)); kvm_pic_destroy(kvm); kvm_ioapic_destroy(kvm); - kvm_destroy_vcpus(kvm); kvfree(rcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.apic_map, 1)); kfree(srcu_dereference_check(kvm->arch.pmu_event_filter, &kvm->srcu, 1)); kvm_mmu_uninit_vm(kvm); -- 2.48.1.658.g4767266eb4-goog