Previously, commit ed129ec9057f ("KVM: x86: forcibly leave nested mode on vCPU reset") addressed an issue where a triple fault occurring in nested mode could lead to use-after-free scenarios. However, the commit did not handle the analogous situation for System Management Mode (SMM).

This omission results in triggering a WARN when a vCPU reset occurs while still in SMM mode, due to the check in kvm_vcpu_reset(). This situation was reprodused using Syzkaller by: 1) Creating a KVM VM and vCPU 2) Sending a KVM_SMI ioctl to explicitly enter SMM 3) Executing invalid instructions causing consecutive exceptions and eventually a triple fault

The issue manifests as follows:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 25506 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12112 kvm_vcpu_reset+0x1d2/0x1530 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12112 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 25506 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.1.130-syzkaller-00157-g164fe5dde9b6 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:kvm_vcpu_reset+0x1d2/0x1530 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12112 Call Trace: <TASK> shutdown_interception+0x66/0xb0 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:2136 svm_invoke_exit_handler+0x110/0x530 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:3395 svm_handle_exit+0x424/0x920 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:3457 vcpu_enter_guest arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:10959 [inline] vcpu_run+0x2c43/0x5a90 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11062 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x50f/0x1cf0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:11283 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x570/0xf00 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4122 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x19a/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Architecturally, hardware CPUs exit SMM upon receiving a triple fault as part of a hardware reset. To reflect this behavior and avoid triggering the WARN, this patch explicitly calls kvm_smm_changed(vcpu, false) in the SVM-specific shutdown_interception() handler prior to resetting the vCPU.

The initial version of this patch attempted to address the issue by calling kvm_smm_changed() inside kvm_vcpu_reset(). However, this approach was not architecturally accurate, as INIT is blocked during SMM and SMM should not be exited implicitly during a generic vCPU reset. This version moves the fix into shutdown_interception() for SVM, where the triple fault is actually handled, and where exiting SMM explicitly is appropriate.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: ed129ec9057f ("KVM: x86: forcibly leave nested mode on vCPU reset") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Mikhail Lobanov m.lobanov@rosa.ru --- v2: Move SMM exit from kvm_vcpu_reset() to SVM's shutdown_interception(), per suggestion from Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com.

arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c index d5d0c5c3300b..34a002a87c28 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c @@ -2231,6 +2231,8 @@ static int shutdown_interception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) */ if (!sev_es_guest(vcpu->kvm)) { clear_page(svm->vmcb); + if (is_smm(vcpu)) + kvm_smm_changed(vcpu, false); kvm_vcpu_reset(vcpu, true); }