3.16.7-ckt4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 29fa6825463c97e5157284db80107d1bfac5d77b upstream.
paravirt_enabled has the following effects:
- Disables the F00F bug workaround warning. There is no F00F bug
workaround any more because Linux's standard IDT handling already
works around the F00F bug, but the warning still exists. This
is only cosmetic, and, in any event, there is no such thing as
KVM on a CPU with the F00F bug.
- Disables 32-bit APM BIOS detection. On a KVM paravirt system,
there should be no APM BIOS anyway.
- Disables tboot. I think that the tboot code should check the
CPUID hypervisor bit directly if it matters.
- paravirt_enabled disables espfix32. espfix32 should *not* be
disabled under KVM paravirt.
The last point is the purpose of this patch. It fixes a leak of the
high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit KVM paravirt
guests. Fixes CVE-2014-8134.
Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 9 ++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
index 3dd8e2c4d74a..07de51f66deb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
@@ -282,7 +282,14 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(do_async_page_fault);
static void __init paravirt_ops_setup(void)
{
pv_info.name = "KVM";
- pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
+
+ /*
+ * KVM isn't paravirt in the sense of paravirt_enabled. A KVM
+ * guest kernel works like a bare metal kernel with additional
+ * features, and paravirt_enabled is about features that are
+ * missing.
+ */
+ pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 0;
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY))
pv_cpu_ops.io_delay = kvm_io_delay;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
index d9156ceecdff..a2de9bc7ac0b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c
@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ void __init kvmclock_init(void)
#endif
kvm_get_preset_lpj();
clocksource_register_hz(&kvm_clock, NSEC_PER_SEC);
- pv_info.paravirt_enabled = 1;
pv_info.name = "KVM";
if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT))
--
2.1.4
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