The preemption timer for nested VMX is emulated by hrtimer which is started on L2
entry, stopped on L2 exit and evaluated via the check_nested_events hook. However,
nested_vmx_exit_handled is always returning true for preemption timer vmexit. Then,
the L1 preemption timer vmexit is captured and be treated as a L2 preemption
timer vmexit, causing NULL pointer dereferences or worse in the L1 guest's
vmexit handler:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [< (null)>] (null)
PGD 0
Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
Call Trace:
? kvm_lapic_expired_hv_timer+0x47/0x90 [kvm]
handle_preemption_timer+0xe/0x20 [kvm_intel]
vmx_handle_exit+0x169/0x15a0 [kvm_intel]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd5d/0x19d0 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xdee/0x19d0 [kvm]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xd5d/0x19d0 [kvm]
? vcpu_load+0x1c/0x60 [kvm]
? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x57/0x260 [kvm]
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d3/0x7c0 [kvm]
do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x6a0
? __fget_light+0x2a/0x90
SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x180
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Code: Bad RIP value.
RIP [< (null)>] (null)
RSP <
ffff8800b5263c48>
CR2:
0000000000000000
---[ end trace
9c70c48b1a2bc66e ]---
This can be reproduced readily by preemption timer enabled on L0 and disabled
on L1.
Return false since preemption timer vmexits must never be reflected to L2.
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Change-Id: Iaffcd503666879e8157c8559876330110a66e5c4
upstream-status: backport
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>