tree eb2ed8a752f4a0f6b5e31ecfb2c73f232939ee4d
parent 2f707d97982286b307ef2a9b034e19aabc1abb56
author Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> 1488905509 +0100
committer Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> 1489070091 +0100

KVM: nVMX: do not warn when MSR bitmap address is not backed

Before trying to do nested_get_page() in nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(),
we have already checked that the MSR bitmap address is valid (4k aligned
and within physical limits).  SDM doesn't specify what happens if the
there is no memory mapped at the valid address, but Intel CPUs treat the
situation as if the bitmap was configured to trap all MSRs.

KVM already does that by returning false and a correct handling doesn't
need the guest-trigerrable warning that was reported by syzkaller:
(The warning was originally there to catch some possible bugs in nVMX.)

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
  nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
  nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
  CPU: 0 PID: 7832 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.10.0+ #229
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [inline]
   dump_stack+0x2ee/0x3ef lib/dump_stack.c:51
   panic+0x1fb/0x412 kernel/panic.c:179
   __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:540
   warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:583
   nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
   nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
   enter_vmx_non_root_mode arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10471 [inline]
   nested_vmx_run+0x6186/0xaab0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10561
   handle_vmlaunch+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:7312
   vmx_handle_exit+0xfc0/0x3f00 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:8526
   vcpu_enter_guest arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:6982 [inline]
   vcpu_run arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7044 [inline]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1418/0x4840 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7205
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x673/0x1120 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2570

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
[Jim Mattson explained the bare metal behavior: "I believe this behavior
 would be documented in the chipset data sheet rather than the SDM,
 since the chipset returns all 1s for an unclaimed read."]
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>