Commit e1d38b63 authored Oct 23, 2019 by Pawan Gupta Committed by Thomas Gleixner Oct 28, 2019

kvm/x86: Export MDS_NO=0 to guests when TSX is enabled



Export the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bit MDS_NO=0 to guests on TSX
Async Abort(TAA) affected hosts that have TSX enabled and updated
microcode. This is required so that the guests don't complain,

  "Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode"

when the host has the updated microcode to clear CPU buffers.

Microcode update also adds support for MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL which is
enumerated by the ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL bit in IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR.
Guests can't do this check themselves when the ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL bit is
not exported to the guests.

In this case export MDS_NO=0 to the guests. When guests have
CPUID.MD_CLEAR=1, they deploy MDS mitigation which also mitigates TAA.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

parent 6608b45a

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

+19 −0

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		@@ -1298,6 +1298,25 @@ static u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void)
		if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS))
		data \|= ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO;

		/*
		* On TAA affected systems, export MDS_NO=0 when:
		* - TSX is enabled on the host, i.e. X86_FEATURE_RTM=1.
		* - Updated microcode is present. This is detected by
		* the presence of ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR and ensures
		* that VERW clears CPU buffers.
		*
		* When MDS_NO=0 is exported, guests deploy clear CPU buffer
		* mitigation and don't complain:
		*
		* "Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode"
		*
		* If TSX is disabled on the system, guests are also mitigated against
		* TAA and clear CPU buffer mitigation is not required for guests.
		*/
		if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA) && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM) &&
		(data & ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR))
		data &= ~ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO;

		return data;
		}

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