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)
committerpopcornmix <popcornmix@gmail.com>
Fri, 6 Oct 2017 12:06:51 +0000 (13:06 +0100)
commit5b255cdd2eaa32ddef98bf08d10b99b3800380aa
tree6175ee23368c1886f6b5d03653a30adbdecb1760
parent8161f335e23dd1e0a0a2ee35f4bbe6e752587579
kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8

commit 51aa68e7d57e3217192d88ce90fd5b8ef29ec94f upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c