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x86, kvm: Clear paravirt_enabled on KVM guests for espfix32's benefit
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 03:03:28 +0000 (19:03 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:27:44 +0000 (10:27 -0800)
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@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c

index 3dd8e2c4d74a9ed4a124baf36a83de78be1be02d..07de51f66deb408df4db1f5a2b6382e26894b9a8 100644 (file)
@@ -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;
index d9156ceecdff03ca0d55ab2834df0d4f7e828203..a2de9bc7ac0b2ac3a9355a266d8937d07d44bb0f 100644 (file)
@@ -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))