This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-add-gds_no-support-to-kvm.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3f0b3065a50cdea648c47f142ffe95cda201b78b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:36:26 +0200 Subject: KVM: Add GDS_NO support to KVM From: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 81ac7e5d741742d650b4ed6186c4826c1a0631a7 upstream Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a transient execution attack using gather instructions from the AVX2 and AVX512 extensions. This attack allows malicious code to infer data that was previously stored in vector registers. Systems that are not vulnerable to GDS will set the GDS_NO bit of the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR. This is useful for VM guests that may think they are on vulnerable systems that are, in fact, not affected. Guests that are running on affected hosts where the mitigation is enabled are protected as if they were running on an unaffected system. On all hosts that are not affected or that are mitigated, set the GDS_NO bit. Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 7 +++++++ arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -673,6 +673,13 @@ static const char * const gds_strings[] [GDS_MITIGATION_HYPERVISOR] = "Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status", }; +bool gds_ucode_mitigated(void) +{ + return (gds_mitigation == GDS_MITIGATION_FULL || + gds_mitigation == GDS_MITIGATION_FULL_LOCKED); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gds_ucode_mitigated); + void update_gds_msr(void) { u64 mcu_ctrl_after; --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ u64 __read_mostly host_xcr0; static struct kmem_cache *x86_emulator_cache; +extern bool gds_ucode_mitigated(void); + /* * When called, it means the previous get/set msr reached an invalid msr. * Return true if we want to ignore/silent this failed msr access. @@ -1613,7 +1615,7 @@ static unsigned int num_msr_based_featur ARCH_CAP_SKIP_VMENTRY_L1DFLUSH | ARCH_CAP_SSB_NO | ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO | \ ARCH_CAP_PSCHANGE_MC_NO | ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR | ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO | \ ARCH_CAP_SBDR_SSDP_NO | ARCH_CAP_FBSDP_NO | ARCH_CAP_PSDP_NO | \ - ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR | ARCH_CAP_RRSBA | ARCH_CAP_PBRSB_NO) + ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR | ARCH_CAP_RRSBA | ARCH_CAP_PBRSB_NO | ARCH_CAP_GDS_NO) static u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void) { @@ -1670,6 +1672,9 @@ static u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(voi */ } + if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_GDS) || gds_ucode_mitigated()) + data |= ARCH_CAP_GDS_NO; + return data; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/x86-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/arm-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-speculation-add-kconfig-option-for-gds.patch queue-6.1/um-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/mips-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/init-x86-move-mem_encrypt_init-into-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/sh-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-speculation-add-gather-data-sampling-mitigation.patch queue-6.1/init-invoke-arch_cpu_finalize_init-earlier.patch queue-6.1/kvm-add-gds_no-support-to-kvm.patch queue-6.1/x86-fpu-move-fpu-initialization-into-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/loongarch-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-speculation-add-force-option-to-gds-mitigation.patch queue-6.1/init-remove-check_bugs-leftovers.patch queue-6.1/init-provide-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/m68k-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-init-initialize-signal-frame-size-late.patch queue-6.1/sparc-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-fpu-mark-init-functions-__init.patch queue-6.1/ia64-cpu-switch-to-arch_cpu_finalize_init.patch queue-6.1/x86-fpu-remove-cpuinfo-argument-from-init-functions.patch