[PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Add LAPIC guard in kvm_apic_write_nodecode()
From: xuanqingshi
Date: Fri Mar 06 2026 - 04:16:08 EST
kvm_apic_write_nodecode() dereferences vcpu->arch.apic without first
checking whether the in-kernel LAPIC has been initialized. If it has
not (e.g. the vCPU was created without an in-kernel LAPIC), the
dereference results in a NULL pointer access.
While APIC-write VM-Exits are not expected to occur on a vCPU without
an in-kernel LAPIC, kvm_apic_write_nodecode() should be robust against
such a scenario as a defense-in-depth measure, e.g. to guard against
KVM bugs or CPU errata that could generate a spurious APIC-write
VM-Exit.
Use KVM_BUG_ON() with lapic_in_kernel() instead of a simple
WARN_ON_ONCE(), as suggested by Sean Christopherson, so that KVM
kills the VM outright rather than letting it continue in a broken
state.
Found by a VMCS-targeted fuzzer based on syzkaller.
Signed-off-by: xuanqingshi <1356292400@xxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index 9381c58d4c85..02f2039d5f99 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -2657,6 +2657,9 @@ void kvm_apic_write_nodecode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 offset)
{
struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
+ if (KVM_BUG_ON(!lapic_in_kernel(vcpu), vcpu->kvm))
+ return;
+
/*
* ICR is a single 64-bit register when x2APIC is enabled, all others
* registers hold 32-bit values. For legacy xAPIC, ICR writes need to
--
2.25.1