[PATCH v7 16/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for EFER, CR0, CR4, and CS

From: Yosry Ahmed

Date: Mon Mar 02 2026 - 19:39:23 EST


According to the APM Volume #2, 15.5, Canonicalization and Consistency
Checks (24593—Rev. 3.42—March 2024), the following condition (among
others) results in a #VMEXIT with VMEXIT_INVALID (aka SVM_EXIT_ERR):

EFER.LME, CR0.PG, CR4.PAE, CS.L, and CS.D are all non-zero.

In the list of consistency checks done when EFER.LME and CR0.PG are set,
add a check that CS.L and CS.D are not both set, after the existing
check that CR4.PAE is set.

This is functionally a nop because the nested VMRUN results in
SVM_EXIT_ERR in HW, which is forwarded to L1, but KVM makes all
consistency checks before a VMRUN is actually attempted.

Fixes: 3d6368ef580a ("KVM: SVM: Add VMRUN handler")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 6 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 3aaa4f0bb31ab..93b3fab9b415d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -392,6 +392,10 @@ static bool nested_vmcb_check_save(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
CC(!(save->cr0 & X86_CR0_PE)) ||
CC(!kvm_vcpu_is_legal_cr3(vcpu, save->cr3)))
return false;
+
+ if (CC((save->cs.attrib & SVM_SELECTOR_L_MASK) &&
+ (save->cs.attrib & SVM_SELECTOR_DB_MASK)))
+ return false;
}

/* Note, SVM doesn't have any additional restrictions on CR4. */
@@ -487,6 +491,8 @@ static void __nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(struct vmcb_save_area_cached *to,
* Copy only fields that are validated, as we need them
* to avoid TOC/TOU races.
*/
+ to->cs = from->cs;
+
to->efer = from->efer;
to->cr0 = from->cr0;
to->cr3 = from->cr3;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 7629cb37c9302..0a5d5a4453b7e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct kvm_vmcb_info {
};

struct vmcb_save_area_cached {
+ struct vmcb_seg cs;
u64 efer;
u64 cr4;
u64 cr3;
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog