4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -10001,6 +10001,11 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vc 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() &&