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KVM: SVM: Harden exit_code against being used in Spectre-like attacks
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:13:46 +0000 (13:13 -0800)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:37:03 +0000 (17:37 -0800)
Explicitly clamp the exit code used to index KVM's exit handlers to guard
against Spectre-like attacks, mainly to provide consistency between VMX
and SVM (VMX was given the same treatment by commit c926f2f7230b ("KVM:
x86: Protect exit_reason from being used in Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks").

For normal VMs, it's _extremely_ unlikely the exit code could be used to
exploit a speculation vulnerability, as the exit code is set by hardware
and unexpected/unknown exit codes should be quite well bounded (as is/was
the case with VMX).  But with SEV-ES+, the exit code is guest-controlled
as it comes from the GHCB, not from hardware, i.e. an attack from the
guest is at least somewhat plausible.

Irrespective of SEV-ES+, hardening KVM is easy and inexpensive, and such
an attack is theoretically possible.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230211347.4099600-8-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c

index a28cd61d87ea6c7dd7d1ef255afe22597f5de905..e454ae095cf7c7f8bb6c56c6133734ceaf5b90b6 100644 (file)
@@ -3501,6 +3501,7 @@ int svm_invoke_exit_handler(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 __exit_code)
        if (exit_code >= ARRAY_SIZE(svm_exit_handlers))
                goto unexpected_vmexit;
 
+       exit_code = array_index_nospec(exit_code, ARRAY_SIZE(svm_exit_handlers));
        if (!svm_exit_handlers[exit_code])
                goto unexpected_vmexit;