If a KVM guest is reset while running a nested guest, free_nested will disable the shadow VMCS execution control in the vmcs01. However, on the next KVM_RUN vmx_vcpu_run would nevertheless try to sync the VMCS12 to the shadow VMCS which has since been freed. This causes a vmptrld of a NULL pointer on my machime, but Jan reports the host to hang altogether. Let's see how much this trivial patch fixes. Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 4f23e34f628b..0f1378789bd0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ static void vmx_disable_shadow_vmcs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) { secondary_exec_controls_clearbit(vmx, SECONDARY_EXEC_SHADOW_VMCS); vmcs_write64(VMCS_LINK_POINTER, -1ull); + vmx->nested.need_vmcs12_to_shadow_sync = false; } static inline void nested_release_evmcs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) @@ -1341,6 +1342,9 @@ static void copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) unsigned long val; int i; + if (WARN_ON(!shadow_vmcs)) + return; + preempt_disable(); vmcs_load(shadow_vmcs); @@ -1373,6 +1377,9 @@ static void copy_vmcs12_to_shadow(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx) unsigned long val; int i, q; + if (WARN_ON(!shadow_vmcs)) + return; + vmcs_load(shadow_vmcs); for (q = 0; q < ARRAY_SIZE(fields); q++) { @@ -4436,7 +4443,6 @@ static inline void nested_release_vmcs12(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) /* copy to memory all shadowed fields in case they were modified */ copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(vmx); - vmx->nested.need_vmcs12_to_shadow_sync = false; vmx_disable_shadow_vmcs(vmx); } vmx->nested.posted_intr_nv = -1; -- 1.8.3.1