x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:48:14 +0000 (12:48 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:23:17 +0000 (23:23 +0100)
commit1ee9398f54edf197b6b9aa57fef141a5b023281f
tree7361bac21be79011ccb79df605e54bcdb95b47af
parentb6cbaba202c703eb7b51990bbdd0b18f4c0cdc36
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active

commit 650b68a0622f933444a6d66936abb3103029413b upstream

CPUs which are affected by L1TF and MDS mitigate MDS with the L1D Flush on
VMENTER when updated microcode is installed.

If a CPU is not affected by L1TF or if the L1D Flush is not in use, then
MDS mitigation needs to be invoked explicitly.

For these cases, follow the host mitigation state and invoke the MDS
mitigation before VMENTER.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all/spec
Gbp-Pq: Name 0011-x86-kvm-vmx-Add-MDS-protection-when-L1D-Flush-is-not.patch
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c