Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DEBUGCTL on vmentry of nested guests

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On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 4:26 PM Krish Sadhukhan
<krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 08/29/2019 03:12 PM, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:25 PM Krish Sadhukhan
> > <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> According to section "Checks on Guest Control Registers, Debug Registers, and
> >> and MSRs" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following checks are performed on vmentry
> >> of nested guests:
> >>
> >>      If the "load debug controls" VM-entry control is 1, bits reserved in the
> >>      IA32_DEBUGCTL MSR must be 0 in the field for that register. The first
> >>      processors to support the virtual-machine extensions supported only the
> >>      1-setting of this control and thus performed this check unconditionally.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>   arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 ++++
> >>   arch/x86/kvm/x86.h        | 6 ++++++
> >>   2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >> index 46af3a5e9209..0b234e95e0ed 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >> @@ -2677,6 +2677,10 @@ static int nested_vmx_check_guest_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>              !nested_guest_cr4_valid(vcpu, vmcs12->guest_cr4))
> >>                  return -EINVAL;
> >>
> >> +       if ((vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_DEBUG_CONTROLS) &&
> >> +           !kvm_debugctl_valid(vmcs12->guest_ia32_debugctl))
> >> +               return -EINVAL;
> >> +
> >>          if ((vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT) &&
> >>              !kvm_pat_valid(vmcs12->guest_ia32_pat))
> >>                  return -EINVAL;
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> >> index a470ff0868c5..28ba6d0c359f 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.h
> >> @@ -354,6 +354,12 @@ static inline bool kvm_pat_valid(u64 data)
> >>          return (data | ((data & 0x0202020202020202ull) << 1)) == data;
> >>   }
> >>
> >> +static inline bool kvm_debugctl_valid(u64 data)
> >> +{
> >> +       /* Bits 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 and [31:16] are reserved */
> >> +       return ((data & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF203Cull) ? false : true);
> >> +}
> > This should actually be consistent with the constraints in kvm_set_msr_common:
> >
> > case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
> >          if (!data) {
> >                  /* We support the non-activated case already */
> >                  break;
> >          } else if (data & ~(DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR | DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF)) {
> >                  /* Values other than LBR and BTF are vendor-specific,
> >                     thus reserved and should throw a #GP */
> >                  return 1;
> >          }
> >
> > Also, as I said earlier...
> >
> > I'd rather see this built on an interface like:
> >
> > bool kvm_valid_msr_value(u32 msr_index, u64 value);
>
> Yes, I forgot to do it. Will send a patch for this...
>
> >
> > Strange that we allow IA32_DEBUGCTL.BTF, since kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep
> > ignores it. And vLBR still isn't a thing, is it?
>
> Yes, DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR isn't used.
> Good catch !
>
> >
> > It's a bit scary to me that we allow any architecturally legal
> > IA32_DEBUGCTL bits to be set today. There's probably a CVE in there
> > somewhere.
> Is it appropriate to disable those two bits as well, then ?

IA32_DEBUGCTL.BTF is just broken, and should be fixed.
IA32_DEBUGCTL.LBR is probably a long way from actually working, but
IIRC, Windows gets cranky if it can't set the bit.



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