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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 1 Oct 2017 14:52:09 +0000 (15:52 +0100)
commit50b187964bcce434d5edd7b8ac8a47272bebf509
tree514d31f55c6a7699e1e3e6e555bf4ea98296a549
parent353fc112074e84c1263a1870d032186b0825ed40
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>
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name kvm-nvmx-don-t-allow-l2-to-access-the-hardware-cr8.patch
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c