Patch "KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-x86-remove-indirect-msr-op-calls-from-spec_ctrl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 16:43:17 +0100
Subject: KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

commit ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad upstream.

Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a
good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution
of bogus indirect branch targets.  It is also slower, so use
native_wrmsrl() on the vmentry path too.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d28b387fb74da95d69d2615732f50cceb38e9a4d
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-2-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |    7 ++++---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
 #include <asm/kvm_para.h>
 #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
 #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
 
 #include <asm/virtext.h>
@@ -5015,7 +5016,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu
 	 * being speculatively taken.
 	 */
 	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
 
 	asm volatile (
 		"push %%" _ASM_BP "; \n\t"
@@ -5125,10 +5126,10 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu
 	 * save it.
 	 */
 	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+		svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
 
 	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
 	vmexit_fill_RSB();
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include <asm/apic.h>
 #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
 #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
 
 #include "trace.h"
@@ -9431,7 +9432,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struc
 	 * being speculatively taken.
 	 */
 	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
 
 	vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
 	asm(
@@ -9567,10 +9568,10 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struc
 	 * save it.
 	 */
 	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+		vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
 
 	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
 	vmexit_fill_RSB();


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/kvm-x86-fix-smram-accessing-even-if-vm-is-shutdown.patch
queue-4.14/kvm-x86-remove-indirect-msr-op-calls-from-spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.14/kvm-x86-move-lapic-initialization-after-vmcs-creation.patch
queue-4.14/kvm-mmu-fix-overlap-between-public-and-private-memslots.patch
queue-4.14/kvm-vmx-optimize-vmx_vcpu_run-and-svm_vcpu_run-by-marking-the-rdmsr-path-as-unlikely.patch