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From patchwork Tue Sep 12 20:02:54 2017
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Subject: kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8
From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
X-Patchwork-Id: 9950035
Message-Id: <20170912200254.111560-1-jmattson@google.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:02:54 -0700
If L1 does not specify the "use TPR shadow" VM-execution control in
vmcs12, then L0 must specify the "CR8-load exiting" and "CR8-store
exiting" VM-execution controls in vmcs02. Failure to do so will give
the L2 VM unrestricted read/write access to the hardware CR8.
This fixes CVE-2017-12154.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index c6efc1f88b25..885b7eed4320 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -10525,6 +10525,11 @@ static int prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12,
if (exec_control & CPU_BASED_TPR_SHADOW) {
vmcs_write64(VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR, -1ull);
vmcs_write32(TPR_THRESHOLD, vmcs12->tpr_threshold);
+ } else {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ exec_control |= CPU_BASED_CR8_LOAD_EXITING |
+ CPU_BASED_CR8_STORE_EXITING;
+#endif
}
/*