This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: VMX: Always clear vmx->fail on emulation_required to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-vmx-always-clear-vmx-fail-on-emulation_required.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a80dfc025924024d2c61a4c1b8ef62b2fce76a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:30:03 +0000 Subject: KVM: VMX: Always clear vmx->fail on emulation_required From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a80dfc025924024d2c61a4c1b8ef62b2fce76a04 upstream. Revert a relatively recent change that set vmx->fail if the vCPU is in L2 and emulation_required is true, as that behavior is completely bogus. Setting vmx->fail and synthesizing a VM-Exit is contradictory and wrong: (a) it's impossible to have both a VM-Fail and VM-Exit (b) vmcs.EXIT_REASON is not modified on VM-Fail (c) emulation_required refers to guest state and guest state checks are always VM-Exits, not VM-Fails. For KVM specifically, emulation_required is handled before nested exits in __vmx_handle_exit(), thus setting vmx->fail has no immediate effect, i.e. KVM calls into handle_invalid_guest_state() and vmx->fail is ignored. Setting vmx->fail can ultimately result in a WARN in nested_vmx_vmexit() firing when tearing down the VM as KVM never expects vmx->fail to be set when L2 is active, KVM always reflects those errors into L1. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 21158 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4548 nested_vmx_vmexit+0x16bd/0x17e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4547 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 21158 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 RIP: 0010:nested_vmx_vmexit+0x16bd/0x17e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:4547 Code: <0f> 0b e9 2e f8 ff ff e8 57 b3 5d 00 0f 0b e9 00 f1 ff ff 89 e9 80 Call Trace: vmx_leave_nested arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:6220 [inline] nested_vmx_free_vcpu+0x83/0xc0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c:330 vmx_free_vcpu+0x11f/0x2a0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6799 kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x6b/0x240 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:10989 kvm_vcpu_destroy+0x29/0x90 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:441 kvm_free_vcpus arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11426 [inline] kvm_arch_destroy_vm+0x3ef/0x6b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11545 kvm_destroy_vm arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1189 [inline] kvm_put_kvm+0x751/0xe40 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1220 kvm_vcpu_release+0x53/0x60 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3489 __fput+0x3fc/0x870 fs/file_table.c:280 task_work_run+0x146/0x1c0 kernel/task_work.c:164 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:32 [inline] do_exit+0x705/0x24f0 kernel/exit.c:832 do_group_exit+0x168/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:929 get_signal+0x1740/0x2120 kernel/signal.c:2852 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9c/0x730 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:868 handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:148 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:172 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x191/0x220 kernel/entry/common.c:207 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:289 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2e/0x70 kernel/entry/common.c:300 do_syscall_64+0x53/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fixes: c8607e4a086f ("KVM: x86: nVMX: don't fail nested VM entry on invalid guest state if !from_vmentry") Reported-by: syzbot+f1d2136db9c80d4733e8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20211207193006.120997-2-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -6612,9 +6612,7 @@ static fastpath_t vmx_vcpu_run(struct kv * consistency check VM-Exit due to invalid guest state and bail. */ if (unlikely(vmx->emulation_required)) { - - /* We don't emulate invalid state of a nested guest */ - vmx->fail = is_guest_mode(vcpu); + vmx->fail = 0; vmx->exit_reason.full = EXIT_REASON_INVALID_STATE; vmx->exit_reason.failed_vmentry = 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/kvm-nvmx-synthesize-triple_fault-for-l2-if-emulation-is-required.patch queue-5.15/kvm-vmx-wake-vcpu-when-delivering-posted-irq-even-if-vcpu-this-vcpu.patch queue-5.15/kvm-vmx-always-clear-vmx-fail-on-emulation_required.patch queue-5.15/kvm-x86-mmu-don-t-advance-iterator-after-restart-due-to-yielding.patch