The following events can lead to an incorrect KVM_EXIT_MMIO bubbling
up to userspace:
(1) Guest accesses gpa X without a memory slot. The gfn is cached in
struct kvm_vcpu_arch (mmio_gfn). On Intel EPT-enabled hosts, KVM sets
the SPTE write-execute-noread so that future accesses cause
EPT_MISCONFIGs.
(2) Host userspace creates a memory slot via KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
covering the page just accessed.
(3) Guest attempts to read or write to gpa X again. On Intel, this
generates an EPT_MISCONFIG. The memory slot generation number that
was incremented in (2) would normally take care of this but we fast
path mmio faults through quickly_check_mmio_pf(), which only checks
the per-vcpu mmio cache. Since we hit the cache, KVM passes a
KVM_EXIT_MMIO up to userspace.
This patch fixes the issue by using the memslot generation number
to validate the mmio cache.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
[xiaoguangrong: adjust the code to make it simpler for stable-tree fix.] Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>