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Revision acff78477b9b4f26ecdf65733a4ed77fe837e9dc authored by Marc Orr on 02 April 2019, 06:55:59 UTC, committed by Paolo Bonzini on 05 April 2019, 19:08:22 UTC
The nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap() function doesn't directly guard the
x2APIC MSR intercepts with the "virtualize x2APIC mode" MSR. As a
result, we discovered the potential for a buggy or malicious L1 to get
access to L0's x2APIC MSRs, via an L2, as follows.

1. L1 executes WRMSR(IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 1). This causes the spec_ctrl
variable, in nested_vmx_prepare_msr_bitmap() to become true.
2. L1 disables "virtualize x2APIC mode" in VMCS12.
3. L1 enables "APIC-register virtualization" in VMCS12.

Now, KVM will set VMCS02's x2APIC MSR intercepts from VMCS12, and then
set "virtualize x2APIC mode" to 0 in VMCS02. Oops.

This patch closes the leak by explicitly guarding VMCS02's x2APIC MSR
intercepts with VMCS12's "virtualize x2APIC mode" control.

The scenario outlined above and fix prescribed here, were verified with
a related patch in kvm-unit-tests titled "Add leak scenario to
virt_x2apic_mode_test".

Note, it looks like this issue may have been introduced inadvertently
during a merge---see 15303ba5d1cd.

Signed-off-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: 644e9524388a5dbc6d4f58c492ee9ef7bd4ddf4d authored by Linus Torvalds on 26 November 2022, 02:02:49 UTC
Merge tag 'for-v6.1-rc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply
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