KVM: arm64: Don't free hyp pages with pKVM on GICv2
authorQuentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:10:14 +0000 (10:10 +0000)
committerMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:39:15 +0000 (11:39 +0100)
Marc reported that enabling protected mode on a device with GICv2
doesn't fail gracefully as one would expect, and leads to a host
kernel crash.

As it turns out, the first half of pKVM init happens before the vgic
probe, and so by the time we find out we have a GICv2 we're already
committed to keeping the pKVM vectors installed at EL2 -- pKVM rejects
stub HVCs for obvious security reasons. However, the error path on KVM
init leads to teardown_hyp_mode() which unconditionally frees hypervisor
allocations (including the EL2 stacks and per-cpu pages) under the
assumption that a previous cpu_hyp_uninit() execution has reset the
vectors back to the stubs, which is false with pKVM.

Interestingly, host stage-2 protection is not enabled yet at this point,
so this use-after-free may go unnoticed for a while. The issue becomes
more obvious after the finalize_pkvm() call.

Fix this by keeping track of the CPUs on which pKVM is initialized in
the kvm_hyp_initialized per-cpu variable, and use it from
teardown_hyp_mode() to skip freeing pages that are in fact used.

Fixes: a770ee80e662 ("KVM: arm64: pkvm: Disable GICv2 support")
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250626101014.1519345-1-qperret@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c

index 6bdf79bc5d95098d0da583acfa04bc7212cebd2f..b223d21c063c31341b0442642cdcc2ae00af7af6 100644 (file)
@@ -2129,7 +2129,7 @@ static void cpu_hyp_init(void *discard)
 
 static void cpu_hyp_uninit(void *discard)
 {
-       if (__this_cpu_read(kvm_hyp_initialized)) {
+       if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled() && __this_cpu_read(kvm_hyp_initialized)) {
                cpu_hyp_reset();
                __this_cpu_write(kvm_hyp_initialized, 0);
        }
@@ -2345,6 +2345,9 @@ static void __init teardown_hyp_mode(void)
 
        free_hyp_pgds();
        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+               if (per_cpu(kvm_hyp_initialized, cpu))
+                       continue;
+
                free_pages(per_cpu(kvm_arm_hyp_stack_base, cpu), NVHE_STACK_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
 
                if (!kvm_nvhe_sym(kvm_arm_hyp_percpu_base)[cpu])