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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)
committerSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:20:43 +0000 (16:20 -0500)
commit20414bb5bce9840e2e925c621c93ad337b3801c3
tree6e21afa3b4e7946b4268a9ee94606d32b2b6e153
parentd3b6f3617b2647a49b2f62ed893a981befdd7f4f
kvm: nVMX: Don't allow L2 to access the hardware CR8

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721777
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>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c