[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Validate input range for pKVM mem transitions

Quentin Perret qperret at google.com
Fri Sep 19 02:52:20 PDT 2025


On Thursday 18 Sep 2025 at 19:00:49 (+0100), Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> There's currently no verification for host issued ranges in most of the
> pKVM memory transitions. The subsequent end boundary might therefore be
> subject to overflow and could evade the later checks.
> 
> Close this loophole with an additional range_is_valid() check on a per
> public function basis.
> 
> host_unshare_guest transition is already protected via
> __check_host_shared_guest(), while assert_host_shared_guest() callers
> are already ignoring host checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> index 8957734d6183..b156fb0bad0f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> @@ -443,6 +443,11 @@ static bool range_is_memory(u64 start, u64 end)
>  	return is_in_mem_range(end - 1, &r);
>  }
>  
> +static bool range_is_valid(u64 start, u64 end)
> +{
> +	return start < end;
> +}
> +
>  static inline int __host_stage2_idmap(u64 start, u64 end,
>  				      enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot)
>  {
> @@ -776,6 +781,9 @@ int __pkvm_host_donate_hyp(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages)
>  	void *virt = __hyp_va(phys);
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!range_is_valid(phys, phys + size))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	host_lock_component();
>  	hyp_lock_component();
>  
> @@ -804,6 +812,9 @@ int __pkvm_hyp_donate_host(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages)
>  	u64 virt = (u64)__hyp_va(phys);
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!range_is_valid(phys, phys + size))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	host_lock_component();
>  	hyp_lock_component();
>  
> @@ -887,6 +898,9 @@ int __pkvm_host_share_ffa(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages)
>  	u64 size = PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages;

It occurred to me that this can also overflow, so perhaps fold that
calculation into your helper as well to be on the safe?

Thanks,
Quentin

>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!range_is_valid(phys, phys + size))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	host_lock_component();
>  	ret = __host_check_page_state_range(phys, size, PKVM_PAGE_OWNED);
>  	if (!ret)
> @@ -902,6 +916,9 @@ int __pkvm_host_unshare_ffa(u64 pfn, u64 nr_pages)
>  	u64 size = PAGE_SIZE * nr_pages;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (!range_is_valid(phys, phys + size))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	host_lock_component();
>  	ret = __host_check_page_state_range(phys, size, PKVM_PAGE_SHARED_OWNED);
>  	if (!ret)
> @@ -949,6 +966,9 @@ int __pkvm_host_share_guest(u64 pfn, u64 gfn, u64 nr_pages, struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> +	if (!range_is_valid(phys, phys + size))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	ret = check_range_allowed_memory(phys, phys + size);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> 
> base-commit: 8b789f2b7602a818e7c7488c74414fae21392b63
> -- 
> 2.51.0.470.ga7dc726c21-goog
> 



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