Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix warning in__kvm_gpc_refresh

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Jun 26 2024 - 16:09:01 EST


On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, Pei Li wrote:
> Check for invalid hva address stored in data before calling
> kvm_gpc_activate_hva() instead of only compare with 0.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+fd555292a1da3180fc82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fd555292a1da3180fc82
> Tested-by: syzbot+fd555292a1da3180fc82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Pei Li <peili.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Syzbot reports a warning message in __kvm_gpc_refresh(). This warning
> requires at least one of gpa and uhva to be valid.
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5090 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/pfncache.c:259 __kvm_gpc_refresh+0xf17/0x1090 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/pfncache.c:259
>
> We are calling it from kvm_gpc_activate_hva(). This function always calls
> __kvm_gpc_activate() with INVALID_GPA. Thus, uhva must be valid to
> disable this warning.
>
> This patch checks for invalid hva address as well instead of only
> comparing hva with 0 before calling kvm_gpc_activate_hva()
>
> syzbot has tested the proposed patch and the reproducer did not trigger
> any issue.
>
> Tested on:
>
> commit: 55027e68 Merge tag 'input-for-v6.10-rc5' of git://git...
> git tree: upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16ea803a980000
> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=e40800950091403a
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fd555292a1da3180fc82
> compiler: Debian clang version 15.0.6, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
> patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=16eeb53e980000
>
> Note: testing is done by a robot and is best-effort only.
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/xen.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
> index f65b35a05d91..de5f34492405 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
> @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ int kvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_xen_vcpu_attr *data)
> r = kvm_gpc_activate(&vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache,
> data->u.gpa, sizeof(struct vcpu_info));
> } else {
> - if (data->u.hva == 0) {
> + if (data->u.hva == 0 || kvm_is_error_hva(data->u.hva)) {
> kvm_gpc_deactivate(&vcpu->arch.xen.vcpu_info_cache);
> r = 0;
> break;

Hmm, I think what we want is to return -EINVAL in this case, not deactivate the
region. I could have sworn KVM does that. Gah, I caught
KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_SHARED_INFO_HVA during review, but missed this one. So to fix
this immediate bug, and avoid similar issues in the future, this?

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index 93814d3850eb..622fe24da910 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ int kvm_xen_hvm_set_attr(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_xen_hvm_attr *data)
} else {
void __user * hva = u64_to_user_ptr(data->u.shared_info.hva);

- if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(hva) || !access_ok(hva, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+ if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(hva)) {
r = -EINVAL;
} else if (!hva) {
kvm_gpc_deactivate(&kvm->arch.xen.shinfo_cache);
diff --git a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
index 0ab90f45db37..728d2c1b488a 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
@@ -438,6 +438,9 @@ int kvm_gpc_activate(struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *gpc, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len)

int kvm_gpc_activate_hva(struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *gpc, unsigned long uhva, unsigned long len)
{
+ if (!access_ok((void __user *)uhva, len))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
return __kvm_gpc_activate(gpc, INVALID_GPA, uhva, len);
}