From db3f2195d29344a3cf1e9dd9ab7f21ced7308cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Roth Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 13:22:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: SEV: Require in-GHCB scratch area if GHCB v2+ is in use As per the GHCB spec, when using GHCB v2+ require the software scratch area to reside in the GHCB's shared buffer. Note, things like Page State Change (PSC) requests _rely_ on this behavior, as the guest can't provide a length when making the request, i.e. the size of the guest payload is bounded by the size of the shared buffer. Failure to force usage of the GHCB, and a slew of other flaws, lets a malicious SNP guest corrupt host kernel heap memory, and leak host heap layout information. setup_vmgexit_scratch() allocates a buffer via kvzalloc(exit_info_2), where exit_info_2 is guest-controlled. With exit_info_2=24, this yields a 24-byte allocation in kmalloc-cg-32 (32-byte slab objects). The buffer holds an 8-byte psc_hdr followed by 8-byte psc_entry structs, so only entries[0] and entries[1] are in-bounds. snp_begin_psc() validates end_entry against VMGEXIT_PSC_MAX_COUNT (253) but NOT against the actual buffer size: idx_end = hdr->end_entry; if (idx_end >= VMGEXIT_PSC_MAX_COUNT) { // checks 253, not buffer snp_complete_psc(svm, ...); return 1; } for (idx = idx_start; idx <= idx_end; idx++) { entry_start = entries[idx]; // OOB when idx >= 2 The guest sets end_entry=10+, causing the host to iterate entries[2+] which are OOB into adjacent slab objects. For each OOB entry: - The host reads 8 bytes (OOB READ / info leak oracle) - If the data passes PSC validation, __snp_complete_one_psc() writes cur_page = 1 or 512 into the entry (OOB WRITE, sev.c:3806) - If validation fails, the error response reveals whether adjacent memory is zero vs non-zero (information disclosure to guest) The guest controls allocation size (exit_info_2), entry range (cur_entry/end_entry), and can fire unlimited VMGEXITs to repeatedly hit different slab positions. By exploiting the variety of bugs, a malicious SEV-SNP guest can: - OOB read adjacent kmalloc-cg-32 objects (heap layout disclosure) - OOB write cur_page bits into adjacent objects (heap corruption) - Trigger use-after-free conditions across VMGEXITs E.g. with KASAN enabled, a single insmod of the PoC guest module produces 73 KASAN reports: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in snp_begin_psc+0x126/0x890 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888219ffb5e0 by task qemu-system-x86/2199 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in snp_begin_psc+0x468/0x890 Write of size 8 at addr ffff888351566648 by task qemu-system-x86/2199 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888XXXXXXXXX which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-32 of size 32 The buggy address is located N bytes to the right of allocated 32-byte region [ffff888XXXXXXXXX, ffff888XXXXXXXXX) Breakdown: 62 slab-out-of-bounds (reads + writes past allocation) 7 slab-use-after-free 4 use-after-free All credit to Stan for the wonderful description and reproducer! Reported-by: Stan Shaw Cc: Michael Roth Cc: Tom Lendacky Cc: Peter Gonda Cc: Jacky Li Fixes: 4af663c2f64a ("KVM: SEV: Allow per-guest configuration of GHCB protocol version") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Roth [sean: write changelog] Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Message-ID: <20260501202250.2115252-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c index c2126b3c3072..23170b64f4a3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c @@ -3703,6 +3703,10 @@ static int setup_vmgexit_scratch(struct vcpu_svm *svm, bool sync, u64 len) scratch_va = (void *)svm->sev_es.ghcb; scratch_va += (scratch_gpa_beg - control->ghcb_gpa); } else { + /* GHCB v2 requires the scratch area to be within the GHCB. */ + if (to_kvm_sev_info(svm->vcpu.kvm)->ghcb_version >= 2) + goto e_scratch; + /* * The guest memory must be read into a kernel buffer, so * limit the size