Re: [PATCH] kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit

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On 2018-01-03 23:31, Jim Mattson wrote:
> Guest GPR values are live in the hardware GPRs at VM-exit.  Do not
> leave any guest values in hardware GPRs after the guest GPR values are
> saved to the vcpu_vmx structure.
> 
> This is a partial mitigation for CVE 2017-5715 and CVE 2017-5753.
> Specifically, it defeats the Project Zero PoC for CVE 2017-5715.
> 
> Suggested-by: Eric Northup <digitaleric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Northup <digitaleric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Serebrin <serebrin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 669f5f74857d..850baff9d107 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -9649,6 +9649,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		/* Save guest registers, load host registers, keep flags */
>  		"mov %0, %c[wordsize](%%" _ASM_SP ") \n\t"
>  		"pop %0 \n\t"
> +		"setbe %c[fail](%0)\n\t"
>  		"mov %%" _ASM_AX ", %c[rax](%0) \n\t"
>  		"mov %%" _ASM_BX ", %c[rbx](%0) \n\t"
>  		__ASM_SIZE(pop) " %c[rcx](%0) \n\t"
> @@ -9665,12 +9666,23 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  		"mov %%r13, %c[r13](%0) \n\t"
>  		"mov %%r14, %c[r14](%0) \n\t"
>  		"mov %%r15, %c[r15](%0) \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r8d,  %%r8d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r9d,  %%r9d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r10d, %%r10d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r11d, %%r11d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r12d, %%r12d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r13d, %%r13d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r14d, %%r14d \n\t"
> +		"xor %%r15d, %%r15d \n\t"
>  #endif
>  		"mov %%cr2, %%" _ASM_AX "   \n\t"
>  		"mov %%" _ASM_AX ", %c[cr2](%0) \n\t"
>  
> +		"xor %%eax, %%eax \n\t"
> +		"xor %%ebx, %%ebx \n\t"
> +		"xor %%esi, %%esi \n\t"
> +		"xor %%edi, %%edi \n\t"
>  		"pop  %%" _ASM_BP "; pop  %%" _ASM_DX " \n\t"
> -		"setbe %c[fail](%0) \n\t"
>  		".pushsection .rodata \n\t"
>  		".global vmx_return \n\t"
>  		"vmx_return: " _ASM_PTR " 2b \n\t"
> 

Shouldn't this be done on AMD as well, or is the answer "microcode
update" there?

Jan



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