KVM: SVM: Update x2APIC MSR intercepts if AVIC is inhibited while L2 is active
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:20:51 +0000 (09:20 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:39:36 +0000 (23:39 +0200)
commit7d3aae206663c4e006b25a1c7a20a4029e67da76
treefe2bf717d343258e18501869bbd4cfe7915d34e6
parent2e8a2c1b03068d76782343446f1b2114ae2ee0bd
KVM: SVM: Update x2APIC MSR intercepts if AVIC is inhibited while L2 is active

Always update x2APIC MSR intercepts for L1 when AVIC is deactivated, even
if L2 is active and KVM is using a separate MSR bitmap to run L2.  If AVIC
is fully enabled prior to running L2, and is then inhibited while L2 is
active (for a VM-scoped inhibit), then KVM will run L1 with AVIC disabled,
but with x2APIC MSR intercepts disabled, i.e. will allow L1 to read most of
the host's APIC state, send arbitrary interrupts, change task priority, and
ultimately trivially DoS the host.

E.g. sending a self-IPI in L1 on HYPERV_REENLIGHTENMENT_VECTOR, 0xee, with
CONFIG_HYPERV=n in the host kernel as a "safe" PoC, yields:

  Spurious interrupt (vector 0xee) on CPU#425. Acked

And hacking KVM to abuse kvm_set_posted_intr_wakeup_handler() to register a
handler and WARN on POSTED_INTR_WAKEUP_VECTOR yields:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:5594 at pi_wakeup_handler+0x9/0x10 [kvm_amd], CPU#156: nested_x2apic_t/316940
  CPU: 156 UID: 0 PID: 316940 Comm: nested_x2apic_t Tainted: G S   U
  Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [U]=USER
  Hardware name: Google Astoria-Turin/astoria, BIOS 0.20260209.0-0 02/09/2026
  RIP: 0010:pi_wakeup_handler+0x9/0x10 [kvm_amd]
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>
   sysvec_kvm_posted_intr_wakeup_ipi+0x64/0x80
   </IRQ>
   <TASK>
   asm_sysvec_kvm_posted_intr_wakeup_ipi+0x1a/0x20
  RIP: 0010:vcpu_run+0x1430/0x1e40 [kvm]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x2c1/0x600 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x580/0x6b0 [kvm]
   __se_sys_ioctl+0x6d/0xb0
   do_syscall_64+0x10a/0x480
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x46ff4b
   </TASK>
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Fixes: 091abbf578f9 ("KVM: x86: nSVM: optimize svm_set_x2apic_msr_interception")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729213558.639074-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/svm/avic.c