[PATCH v3 16/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for nCR3 validity

From: Yosry Ahmed

Date: Mon Dec 15 2025 - 14:29:26 EST


>From the APM Volume #2, 15.25.4 (24593—Rev. 3.42—March 2024):

When VMRUN is executed with nested paging enabled
(NP_ENABLE = 1), the following conditions are considered illegal
state combinations, in addition to those mentioned in
“Canonicalization and Consistency Checks”:
• Any MBZ bit of nCR3 is set.
• Any G_PAT.PA field has an unsupported type encoding or any
reserved field in G_PAT has a nonzero value.

Add the consistency check for nCR3 being a legal GPA with no MBZ bits
set. The G_PAT.PA check was proposed separately [*].

[*]https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20251107201151.3303170-6-jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 4b16184c1cca ("KVM: SVM: Initialize Nested Nested MMU context on VMRUN")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 24b10188fb91..cac61d65efc7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -335,6 +335,11 @@ static bool nested_vmcb_check_controls(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (CC(control->asid == 0))
return false;

+ if (nested_npt_enabled(to_svm(vcpu))) {
+ if (CC(!kvm_vcpu_is_legal_gpa(vcpu, control->nested_cr3)))
+ return false;
+ }
+
if (CC(!nested_svm_check_bitmap_pa(vcpu, control->msrpm_base_pa,
MSRPM_SIZE)))
return false;
--
2.52.0.239.gd5f0c6e74e-goog