Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: X86: Fix warning caused by stale emulation context

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 13:52:18 EST


On Mon, May 24, 2021, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reported by syzkaller:
>
> WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 10526 at /home/kernel/ssd/linux/arch/x86/kvm//x86.c:7621 x86_emulate_instruction+0x41b/0x510 [kvm]
> RIP: 0010:x86_emulate_instruction+0x41b/0x510 [kvm]
> Call Trace:
> kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x126/0x8f0 [kvm]
> vmx_handle_exit+0x11e/0x680 [kvm_intel]
> vcpu_enter_guest+0xd95/0x1b40 [kvm]
> kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x377/0x6a0 [kvm]
> kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x389/0x630 [kvm]
> __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8e/0xd0
> do_syscall_64+0x3c/0xb0
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>
> Commit 4a1e10d5b5d8c (KVM: x86: handle hardware breakpoints during emulation())
> adds hardware breakpoints check before emulation the instruction and parts of
> emulation context initialization, actually we don't have the EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE flag
> here and the emulation context will not be reused. Commit c8848cee74ff (KVM: x86:
> set ctxt->have_exception in x86_decode_insn()) triggers the warning because it
> catches the stale emulation context has #UD, however, it is not during instruction
> decoding which should result in EMULATION_FAILED. This patch fixes it by moving
> the second part emulation context initialization into init_emulate_ctxt() and
> before hardware breakpoints check. The ctxt->ud will be dropped by a follow-up
> patch.
>
> syzkaller source: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=134683fdd00000
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+71271244f206d17f6441@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 4a1e10d5b5d8 (KVM: x86: handle hardware breakpoints during emulation)
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> * move the second part emulation context initialization into init_emulate_ctxt()
>
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 +++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index bed7b53..3c109d3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -7228,6 +7228,11 @@ static void init_emulate_ctxt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> BUILD_BUG_ON(HF_SMM_MASK != X86EMUL_SMM_MASK);
> BUILD_BUG_ON(HF_SMM_INSIDE_NMI_MASK != X86EMUL_SMM_INSIDE_NMI_MASK);
>
> + ctxt->interruptibility = 0;
> + ctxt->have_exception = false;
> + ctxt->exception.vector = -1;
> + ctxt->perm_ok = false;
> +
> init_decode_cache(ctxt);
> vcpu->arch.emulate_regs_need_sync_from_vcpu = false;
> }
> @@ -7554,6 +7559,8 @@ int x86_decode_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int emulation_type,
>
> init_emulate_ctxt(vcpu);
>
> + ctxt->ud = emulation_type & EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD;

Heh, you sent the delta relative to v1. To avoid confusion, can you post v3
with this squashed in?

Thanks!