KVM: x86/speculation: Disable Fill buffer clear within guests
commit 027bbb884be006b05d9c577d6401686053aa789e upstream The enumeration of MD_CLEAR in CPUID(EAX=7,ECX=0).EDX{bit 10} is not an accurate indicator on all CPUs of whether the VERW instruction will overwrite fill buffers. FB_CLEAR enumeration in IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES{bit 17} covers the case of CPUs that are not vulnerable to MDS/TAA, indicating that microcode does overwrite fill buffers. Guests running in VMM environments may not be aware of all the capabilities/vulnerabilities of the host CPU. Specifically, a guest may apply MDS/TAA mitigations when a virtual CPU is enumerated as vulnerable to MDS/TAA even when the physical CPU is not. On CPUs that enumerate FB_CLEAR_CTRL the VMM may set FB_CLEAR_DIS to skip overwriting of fill buffers by the VERW instruction. This is done by setting FB_CLEAR_DIS during VMENTER and resetting on VMEXIT. For guests that enumerate FB_CLEAR (explicitly asking for fill buffer clear capability) the VMM will not use FB_CLEAR_DIS. Irrespective of guest state, host overwrites CPU buffers before VMENTER to protect itself from an MMIO capable guest, as part of mitigation for MMIO Stale Data vulnerabilities. Signed-off-by:Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [cascardo: arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c has been split and context adjustment at vmx_vcpu_run] [cascardo: moved functions so they are after struct vcpu_vmx definition] [cascardo: fb_clear is disabled/enabled around __vmx_vcpu_run] [cascardo: conflict context fixups] Signed-off-by:
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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