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Sean Christopherson c60f5156e6 KVM: x86: Free vCPUs before freeing VM state 
commit 17bcd71442 upstream.

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 6fcee03df6 ("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@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240703175618.2304869-2-aaronlewis@google.com
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Rick P Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20250224235542.2562848-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cheng <chengkev@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-08-01 09:48:47 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: Free vCPUs before freeing VM state 2025-08-01 09:48:47 +01:00
block block: fix kobject leak in blk_unregister_queue 2025-07-24 08:56:30 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Harden against integer overflows in DIV_ROUND_UP() 2025-07-17 18:37:24 +02:00
Documentation bpf: Adjust free target to avoid global starvation of LRU map 2025-07-17 18:37:22 +02:00
drivers Revert "drm/xe/forcewake: Add a helper xe_force_wake_ref_has_domain()" 2025-08-01 09:48:47 +01:00
fs ext4: fix out of bounds punch offset 2025-08-01 09:48:46 +01:00
include sprintf.h requires stdarg.h 2025-08-01 09:48:43 +01:00
init rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's unnecessary_transmutes lint 2025-05-18 08:24:51 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:56:23 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
lib lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users() 2025-07-17 18:37:14 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/zsmalloc: do not pass __GFP_MOVABLE if CONFIG_COMPACTION=n 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
net net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class 2025-08-01 09:48:41 +01:00
rust rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix compilation failure for samples/bpf on LoongArch Fedora 2025-05-29 11:02:01 +02:00
scripts rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
security selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-07-10 16:05:04 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: Add missing NVIDIA HDA codec IDs 2025-08-01 09:48:47 +01:00
tools selftests/bpf: Add tests with stack ptr register in conditional jmp 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.40 2025-07-24 08:56:38 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.