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kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8
authorJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:02:54 +0000 (13:02 -0700)
committerKrish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Tue, 3 Oct 2017 22:38:05 +0000 (18:38 -0400)
commit4dfcf8a65c0c971346cf32897972b52e9585e3f1
tree1561b38633e79b12a009fc39c54aa454e0a3e096
parent263180a2928105b7bab251e6e30e4a008356919a
kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8

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: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f)
OraBug: 26868769 CVE-2017-12154 kvm: nVMX: L2 guest could access hardware(L0) CR8 register
Tested-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c