Recently while trying to fix some unit tests I found a CVE in SVM nested code.
In 'shutdown_interception' vmexit handler we call kvm_vcpu_reset.
However if running nested and L1 doesn't intercept shutdown, we will still end up running this function and trigger a bug in it.
The bug is that this function resets the 'vcpu->arch.hflags' without properly leaving the nested state, which leaves the vCPU in inconsistent state, which later triggers a kernel panic in SVM code.
The same bug can likely be triggered by sending INIT via local apic to a vCPU which runs a nested guest.
On VMX we are lucky that the issue can't happen because VMX always intercepts triple faults, thus triple fault in L2 will always be redirected to L1. Plus the 'handle_triple_fault' of VMX doesn't reset the vCPU.
INIT IPI can't happen on VMX either because INIT events are masked while in VMX mode.
First 4 patches in this series address the above issue, and are already posted on the list with title, ('nSVM: fix L0 crash if L2 has shutdown condtion which L1 doesn't intercept') I addressed the review feedback and also added a unit test to hit this issue.
In addition to these patches I noticed that KVM doesn't honour SHUTDOWN intercept bit of L1 on SVM, and I included a fix to do so - its only for correctness as a normal hypervisor should always intercept SHUTDOWN. A unit test on the other hand might want to not do so. I also extendted the triple_fault_test selftest to hit this issue.
Finaly I found another security issue, I found a way to trigger a kernel non rate limited printk on SVM from the guest, and last patch in the series fixes that.
A unit test I posted to kvm-unit-tests project hits this issue, so no selftest was added.
Best regards, Maxim Levitsky
Maxim Levitsky (9): KVM: x86: nSVM: leave nested mode on vCPU free KVM: x86: nSVM: harden svm_free_nested against freeing vmcb02 while still in use KVM: x86: add kvm_leave_nested KVM: x86: forcibly leave nested mode on vCPU reset KVM: selftests: move idt_entry to header kvm: selftests: add svm nested shutdown test KVM: x86: allow L1 to not intercept triple fault KVM: selftests: add svm part to triple_fault_test KVM: x86: remove exit_int_info warning in svm_handle_exit
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 12 ++- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 10 +-- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 29 ++++++-- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/kvm/include/x86_64/processor.h | 13 ++++ .../selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c | 13 ---- .../kvm/x86_64/svm_nested_shutdown_test.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++ .../kvm/x86_64/triple_fault_event_test.c | 73 ++++++++++++++----- 10 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/svm_nested_shutdown_test.c