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Message-ID: <87k0gh675j.fsf@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:16:08 +0100
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, jmattson@...gle.com,
        syzbot <syzbot+f1d2136db9c80d4733e8@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com,
        joro@...tes.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, wanpengli@...cent.com, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [syzbot] WARNING in nested_vmx_vmexit

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> syzbot <syzbot+f1d2136db9c80d4733e8@...kaller.appspotmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > syzbot found the following issue on:
>> >
>> > HEAD commit:    5f58da2befa5 Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2021-12-03-1' of git://a..
>> > git tree:       upstream
>> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14927309b00000
>> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=e9ea28d2c3c2c389
>> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f1d2136db9c80d4733e8
>> > compiler:       Debian clang version 11.0.1-2, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
>> >
>> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> > Reported-by: syzbot+f1d2136db9c80d4733e8@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>> >
>> > ------------[ 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
>> 
>> The comment above this WARN_ON_ONCE() says:
>> 
>> 4541)              /*
>> 4542)               * The only expected VM-instruction error is "VM entry with
>> 4543)               * invalid control field(s)." Anything else indicates a
>> 4544)               * problem with L0.  And we should never get here with a
>> 4545)               * VMFail of any type if early consistency checks are enabled.
>> 4546)               */
>> 4547)              WARN_ON_ONCE(vmcs_read32(VM_INSTRUCTION_ERROR) !=
>> 4548)                           VMXERR_ENTRY_INVALID_CONTROL_FIELD);
>> 
>> which I think should still be valid and so the problem needs to be
>> looked at L0 (GCE infrastructure). Sean, Jim, your call :-)
>
> The assertion itself is still valid, but look at the call stack.  This is firing
> when KVM tears down the VM, i.e. vmx->fail is likely stale.

Oh, I see, true that!

>  I'll bet dollars to
> donuts that commit c8607e4a086f ("KVM: x86: nVMX: don't fail nested VM entry on
> invalid guest state if !from_vmentry") is to blame.  L1 is running with
> unrestricted_guest=Y, so the only way vmx->emulation_required should become true
> is if L2 is active and is not an unrestricted guest.
>
> I objected to the patch[*], but looking back at the dates, it appears that I did
> so after the patch was queued and my comments were never addressed.  
> I'll see if I can reproduce this with a selftest.  The fix is likely just:
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index dc4909b67c5c..927a7c43b73b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -6665,10 +6665,6 @@ static fastpath_t vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>          * 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->exit_reason.full = EXIT_REASON_INVALID_STATE;
>                 vmx->exit_reason.failed_vmentry = 1;
>                 kvm_register_mark_available(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_EXIT_INFO_1);
>
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YWDWPbgJik5spT1D@google.com/
>

Let's also summon Max to the discussion to get his thoughts.

>> >  <TASK>
>> >  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
>> > RIP: 0033:0x7f3388806b19
>> > Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7f3388806aef.
>> > RSP: 002b:00007f338773a218 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000ca
>> > RAX: fffffffffffffe00 RBX: 00007f338891a0e8 RCX: 00007f3388806b19
>> > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 00007f338891a0e8
>> > RBP: 00007f338891a0e0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
>> > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f338891a0ec
>> > R13: 00007fffbe0e838f R14: 00007f338773a300 R15: 0000000000022000
>> >  </TASK>
>

-- 
Vitaly