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authorJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>2017-09-12 13:02:54 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-10-05 09:41:46 +0200
commit21a638c5efd6ec7a10441bfb94e15e5288920f07 (patch)
treea3e77b7191e068d19dc28161211d1f5ec75092be /arch
parent7520be6a454c28955e711fdb49c81519bc537b39 (diff)
kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8
commit 51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f upstream. 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> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index bd3407a7a9ee..ee7ae9e937b2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -9683,6 +9683,11 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
vmcs_write64(VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR,
page_to_phys(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page));
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
}
if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap() &&