aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAndrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>2018-01-10 10:12:03 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-01-17 09:35:30 +0100
commit6785f955bcb615de068079943a8382c600f74c45 (patch)
treee84f878ce5279510dddad295e77f5d82e58a5ccc
parent7d1bef0f6037f4cb3380cc41596ec1b6ecfb19a7 (diff)
KVM: x86: Add memory barrier on vmcs field lookup
commit 75f139aaf896d6fdeec2e468ddfa4b2fe469bf40 upstream. This adds a memory barrier when performing a lookup into the vmcs_field_to_offset_table. This is related to CVE-2017-5753. Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 60637937df9f..c26255f19603 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -828,8 +828,16 @@ static inline short vmcs_field_to_offset(unsigned long field)
{
BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table) > SHRT_MAX);
- if (field >= ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table) ||
- vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field] == 0)
+ if (field >= ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table))
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ /*
+ * FIXME: Mitigation for CVE-2017-5753. To be replaced with a
+ * generic mechanism.
+ */
+ asm("lfence");
+
+ if (vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field] == 0)
return -ENOENT;
return vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field];