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KVM: nSVM: Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory

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Ignore nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory for nested SVM, as bits
4:0 of CR3 are ignored when PAE paging is used, and thus VMRUN doesn't
enforce 32-byte alignment of nCR3.

In the absolute worst case scenario, failure to ignore bits 4:0 can result
in an out-of-bounds read, e.g. if the target page is at the end of a
memslot, and the VMM isn't using guard pages.

Per the APM:

  The CR3 register points to the base address of the page-directory-pointer
  table. The page-directory-pointer table is aligned on a 32-byte boundary,
  with the low 5 address bits 4:0 assumed to be 0.

And the SDM's much more explicit:

  4:0    Ignored

Note, KVM gets this right when loading PDPTRs, it's only the nSVM flow
that is broken.

Fixes: e4e517b4be ("KVM: MMU: Do not unconditionally read PDPTE from guest memory")
Reported-by: Kirk Swidowski <swidowski@google.com>
Cc: Andy Nguyen <theflow@google.com>
Cc: 3pvd <3pvd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-ID: <20241009140838.1036226-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Sean Christopherson 2024-10-09 07:08:38 -07:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 731285fbb6
commit f559b2e9c5
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@ -63,8 +63,12 @@ static u64 nested_svm_get_tdp_pdptr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int index)
u64 pdpte;
int ret;
/*
* Note, nCR3 is "assumed" to be 32-byte aligned, i.e. the CPU ignores
* nCR3[4:0] when loading PDPTEs from memory.
*/
ret = kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page(vcpu, gpa_to_gfn(cr3), &pdpte,
offset_in_page(cr3) + index * 8, 8);
(cr3 & GENMASK(11, 5)) + index * 8, 8);
if (ret)
return 0;
return pdpte;