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x86/bugs, KVM: Support the combination of guest and host IBRS
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:04:19 +0000 (22:04 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 22 May 2018 16:56:26 +0000 (18:56 +0200)
commit2460962b14b78b47ebfeb744bd9e09d813c8236d
treeeb86a84870a5fd5de35a3ae8e2f486938b41ba7e
parent4fa760f200941e88187c0241ce5df72e8ec9cd97
x86/bugs, KVM: Support the combination of guest and host IBRS

commit 5cf687548705412da47c9cec342fd952d71ed3d5 upstream

A guest may modify the SPEC_CTRL MSR from the value used by the
kernel. Since the kernel doesn't use IBRS, this means a value of zero is
what is needed in the host.

But the 336996-Speculative-Execution-Side-Channel-Mitigations.pdf refers to
the other bits as reserved so the kernel should respect the boot time
SPEC_CTRL value and use that.

This allows to deal with future extensions to the SPEC_CTRL interface if
any at all.

Note: This uses wrmsrl() instead of native_wrmsl(). I does not make any
difference as paravirt will over-write the callq *0xfff.. with the wrmsrl
assembler code.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c