FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9f46c187e2e680ecd9de7983e4d081c3391acc76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:48:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID

With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call
to kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva.  If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the
invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix it trivially by checking for mmu->invlpg before every call.

There are other possibilities:

- check for CR0.PG, because KVM (like all Intel processors after P5)
  flushes guest TLB on CR0.PG changes so that INVPCID/INVLPG are a
  nop with paging disabled

- check for EFER.LMA, because KVM syncs and flushes when switching
  MMU contexts outside of 64-bit mode

All of these are tricky, go for the simple solution.  This is CVE-2022-1789.

Reported-by: Yongkang Jia <kangel@zju.edu.cn>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 56ebc4fb7f91..45e1573f8f1d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -5470,14 +5470,16 @@ void kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t gva, unsigned long pcid)
 	uint i;
 
 	if (pcid == kvm_get_active_pcid(vcpu)) {
-		mmu->invlpg(vcpu, gva, mmu->root.hpa);
+		if (mmu->invlpg)
+			mmu->invlpg(vcpu, gva, mmu->root.hpa);
 		tlb_flush = true;
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < KVM_MMU_NUM_PREV_ROOTS; i++) {
 		if (VALID_PAGE(mmu->prev_roots[i].hpa) &&
 		    pcid == kvm_get_pcid(vcpu, mmu->prev_roots[i].pgd)) {
-			mmu->invlpg(vcpu, gva, mmu->prev_roots[i].hpa);
+			if (mmu->invlpg)
+				mmu->invlpg(vcpu, gva, mmu->prev_roots[i].hpa);
 			tlb_flush = true;
 		}
 	}

Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

[Vegard Nossum]

On 5/21/22 15:59, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> 
>>From 9f46c187e2e680ecd9de7983e4d081c3391acc76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:48:11 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: fix NULL pointer dereference on guest INVPCID
> 

I don't think 5.4 or earlier need this patch as (AFAICT) the bug was
introduced by:

commit 5efac0741ce238e0844d3f7af00198f81e84926a
Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 23 20:42:57 2020 -0400

    KVM: x86: introduce kvm_mmu_invalidate_gva

which was merged in v5.8 and has not been backported to v5.4.y or any
earlier stable branch.

The reproducer does not crash on latest v5.4.y, which agrees with the above.


Vegard