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>
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:27:19 +0000 (15:27 +0100)
commit7999f7fc5b2ca4c0b2a96b7fb3dfa4e30274da27
treeaf89dfd080a897086d06e58614e47d55d24bb2bb
parent082d8a6a55d2b6583d9e93ac9796efdf4c412658
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>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c