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Message-ID: <cd83ff1c-b70c-f0cc-88fc-598fd25bcaa0@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:30:44 +0000
From:   Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@...el.com>,
        Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@...el.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] KVM: x86: nSVM: harden svm_free_nested against
 freeing vmcb02 while still in use

On 03/11/2022 14:13, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Make sure that KVM uses vmcb01 before freeing nested state, and warn if
> that is not the case.
> 
> This is a minimal fix for CVE-2022-3344 making the kernel print a warning
> instead of a kernel panic.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@...cle.com>


> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> index b258d6988f5dde..b74da40c1fc40c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
> @@ -1126,6 +1126,9 @@ void svm_free_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>   	if (!svm->nested.initialized)
>   		return;
>   
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(svm->vmcb != svm->vmcb01.ptr))
> +		svm_switch_vmcb(svm, &svm->vmcb01);
> +
>   	svm_vcpu_free_msrpm(svm->nested.msrpm);
>   	svm->nested.msrpm = NULL;
>