[PATCH v4 16/26] KVM: nSVM: Add missing consistency check for nCR3 validity
From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Wed Jan 14 2026 - 20:14:00 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 0f2b42803cf6..eb4a633a668d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -351,6 +351,11 @@ 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;
--
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog