KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)
authorMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:05:00 +0000 (16:05 +0300)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:35:21 +0000 (21:35 +0100)
commitd14addd5932708d4070fc2dea5dc28b865bc23e2
treec4c471c408700d6137f66f027d0213478e049e1b
parent981117125ec5e37e316a5d61159281532f4a486e
KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)

Origin: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit?id=3dc5666baf2a135f250e4101d41d5959ac2c2e1f
Bug-Debian-Security: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3656

commit c7dfa4009965a9b2d7b329ee970eb8da0d32f0bc upstream.

If L1 disables VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts, and doesn't enable
Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE (currently not supported for the nested hypervisor),
then VMLOAD/VMSAVE must operate on the L1 physical memory, which is only
possible by making L0 intercept these instructions.

Failure to do so allowed the nested guest to run VMLOAD/VMSAVE unintercepted,
and thus read/write portions of the host physical memory.

Fixes: 89c8a4984fc9 ("KVM: SVM: Enable Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE feature")
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name KVM-nSVM-always-intercept-VMLOAD-VMSAVE-when-nested-.patch
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c