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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-02-15 04:14:33 +0300
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-02-24 19:59:55 +0300
commit5c17848134ab1ffb97c4a17a6e25b41390478152 (patch)
tree8113060a00d9134f1f0361a244f6d4eca5e2cc42
parent3617c0ee7decb3db3f230b1c844126575fab4d49 (diff)
downloadlinux-5c17848134ab1ffb97c4a17a6e25b41390478152.tar.xz
KVM: x86/xen: Restrict hypercall MSR to unofficial synthetic range
Reject userspace attempts to set the Xen hypercall page MSR to an index outside of the "standard" virtualization range [0x40000000, 0x4fffffff], as KVM is not equipped to handle collisions with real MSRs, e.g. KVM doesn't update MSR interception, conflicts with VMCS/VMCB fields, special case writes in KVM, etc. While the MSR index isn't strictly ABI, i.e. can theoretically float to any value, in practice no known VMM sets the MSR index to anything other than 0x40000000 or 0x40000200. Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215011437.1203084-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h3
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/xen.c9
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 2b52eb77e29c..5fe84f2427b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -1000,6 +1000,10 @@ blobs in userspace. When the guest writes the MSR, kvm copies one
page of a blob (32- or 64-bit, depending on the vcpu mode) to guest
memory.
+The MSR index must be in the range [0x40000000, 0x4fffffff], i.e. must reside
+in the range that is unofficially reserved for use by hypervisors. The min/max
+values are enumerated via KVM_XEN_MSR_MIN_INDEX and KVM_XEN_MSR_MAX_INDEX.
+
::
struct kvm_xen_hvm_config {
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 9e75da97bce0..460306b35a4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ struct kvm_x86_mce {
#define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_PVCLOCK_TSC_UNSTABLE (1 << 7)
#define KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO_HVA (1 << 8)
+#define KVM_XEN_MSR_MIN_INDEX 0x40000000u
+#define KVM_XEN_MSR_MAX_INDEX 0x4fffffffu
+
struct kvm_xen_hvm_config {
__u32 flags;
__u32 msr;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
index a909b817b9c0..5b94825001a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/xen.c
@@ -1324,6 +1324,15 @@ int kvm_xen_hvm_config(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_xen_hvm_config *xhc)
xhc->blob_size_32 || xhc->blob_size_64))
return -EINVAL;
+ /*
+ * Restrict the MSR to the range that is unofficially reserved for
+ * synthetic, virtualization-defined MSRs, e.g. to prevent confusing
+ * KVM by colliding with a real MSR that requires special handling.
+ */
+ if (xhc->msr &&
+ (xhc->msr < KVM_XEN_MSR_MIN_INDEX || xhc->msr > KVM_XEN_MSR_MAX_INDEX))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.xen.xen_lock);
if (xhc->msr && !kvm->arch.xen_hvm_config.msr)