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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 15 May 2019 22:07:16 +0000 (23:07 +0100)
commit5084025cc84817692c81e416548d518060c51c83
tree92240f57f0b086f71130348f1ad5a4f86fb1c86a
parentf4d2023e0ccdcb10938a97e946564456a4102d56
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