This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
to the 4.9-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-x86-remove-indirect-msr-op-calls-from-spec_ctrl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:43:17 +0100
Subject: KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad upstream.
Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a
good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution
of bogus indirect branch targets. It is also slower, so use
native_wrmsrl() on the vmentry path too.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: d28b387fb74da95d69d2615732f50cceb38e9a4d
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-2-pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 ++++---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
#include <asm/kvm_para.h>
#include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
#include <asm/virtext.h>
@@ -4919,7 +4920,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu
* being speculatively taken.
*/
if (svm->spec_ctrl)
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+ native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
asm volatile (
"push %%" _ASM_BP "; \n\t"
@@ -5029,10 +5030,10 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu
* save it.
*/
if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
- rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+ svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
if (svm->spec_ctrl)
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+ native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
vmexit_fill_RSB();
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <asm/kexec.h>
#include <asm/apic.h>
#include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
#include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
#include "trace.h"
@@ -8906,7 +8907,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struc
* being speculatively taken.
*/
if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+ native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
asm(
@@ -9042,10 +9043,10 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struc
* save it.
*/
if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
- rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+ vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+ native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
vmexit_fill_RSB();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-fix-smram-accessing-even-if-vm-is-shutdown.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-remove-indirect-msr-op-calls-from-spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-mmu-fix-overlap-between-public-and-private-memslots.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-optimize-vmx_vcpu_run-and-svm_vcpu_run-by-marking-the-rdmsr-path-as-unlikely.patch