Commit 0be892c3 authored by Jim Mattson's avatar Jim Mattson Committed by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721550

commit 51aa68e7 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: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
parent d04ff974
......@@ -9686,6 +9686,11 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
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() &&
......
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