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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-12-05 19:03:28 -0800
committerZefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>2015-02-02 17:05:24 +0800
commitea500805ef36f95b4126c2fdd00dc33e84ac3a0a (patch)
treef2b309ea317edc377287c2caa6998f66639ce8ec /arch
parent66cc8f8440666b4ef0996ec76d9a208f5b54970f (diff)
x86, kvm: Clear paravirt_enabled on KVM guests for espfix32's benefit
commit 29fa6825463c97e5157284db80107d1bfac5d77b upstream. paravirt_enabled has the following effects: - Disables the F00F bug workaround warning. There is no F00F bug workaround any more because Linux's standard IDT handling already works around the F00F bug, but the warning still exists. This is only cosmetic, and, in any event, there is no such thing as KVM on a CPU with the F00F bug. - Disables 32-bit APM BIOS detection. On a KVM paravirt system, there should be no APM BIOS anyway. - Disables tboot. I think that the tboot code should check the CPUID hypervisor bit directly if it matters. - paravirt_enabled disables espfix32. espfix32 should *not* be disabled under KVM paravirt. The last point is the purpose of this patch. It fixes a leak of the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit KVM paravirt guests. Fixes CVE-2014-8134. Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c9
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c1
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index e554e5ad2fe8..226f28413f76 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -258,7 +258,14 @@ do_async_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
static void __init paravirt_ops_setup(void)
{
pv_info.name = "KVM";
- pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
+
+ /*
+ * KVM isn't paravirt in the sense of paravirt_enabled. A KVM
+ * guest kernel works like a bare metal kernel with additional
+ * features, and paravirt_enabled is about features that are
+ * missing.
+ */
+ pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 0;
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY))
pv_cpu_ops.io_delay = kvm_io_delay;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index f8492da65bfc..5e3f91bb6ec3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
#endif
kvm_get_preset_lpj();
clocksource_register_hz(&kvm_clock, NSEC_PER_SEC);
- pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
pv_info.name = "KVM";
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT))