Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/cpuid: Stop exposing unknown AMX Tile Palettes and accelerator units

[Like Xu <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>]

Let me try pinging again until it times out or fails.

On 9/2/2022 5:29 pm, Like Xu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> KVM does not have much filtering in exposing the host cpuid (at least for Intel 
> PT and AMX),
> and innocent user spaces could be corrupted when unknown new bits are 
> accidentally exposed.
> 
> Comments on code changes in this direction are welcome.
> 
> + https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20220112041100.26769-1-likexu@tencent.com/
> 
> On 17/1/2022 2:59 pm, Like Xu wrote:
>> From: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
>>
>> Guest enablement of Intel AMX requires a good co-work from both host and
>> KVM, which means that KVM should take a more safer approach to avoid
>> the accidental inclusion of new unknown AMX features, even though it's
>> designed to be an extensible architecture.
>>
>> Per current spec, Intel CPUID Leaf 1EH sub-leaf 1 and above are reserved,
>> other bits in leaves 0x1d and 0x1e marked as "Reserved=0" shall be strictly
>> limited by definition for reporeted KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID.
>>
>> Fixes: 690a757d610e ("kvm: x86: Add CPUID support for Intel AMX")
>> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 12 ++++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
>> index c55e57b30e81..3fde6610d314 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
>> @@ -661,7 +661,6 @@ static struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *do_host_cpuid(struct 
>> kvm_cpuid_array *array,
>>       case 0x17:
>>       case 0x18:
>>       case 0x1d:
>> -    case 0x1e:
>>       case 0x1f:
>>       case 0x8000001d:
>>           entry->flags |= KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX;
>> @@ -936,21 +935,26 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_func(struct kvm_cpuid_array 
>> *array, u32 function)
>>           break;
>>       /* Intel AMX TILE */
>>       case 0x1d:
>> +        entry->ebx = entry->ecx = entry->edx = 0;
>>           if (!kvm_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_AMX_TILE)) {
>> -            entry->eax = entry->ebx = entry->ecx = entry->edx = 0;
>> +            entry->eax = 0;
>>               break;
>>           }
>> +        entry->eax = min(entry->eax, 1u);
>>           for (i = 1, max_idx = entry->eax; i <= max_idx; ++i) {
>>               if (!do_host_cpuid(array, function, i))
>>                   goto out;
>>           }
>>           break;
>> -    case 0x1e: /* TMUL information */
>> +    /* TMUL Information */
>> +    case 0x1e:
>> +        entry->eax = entry->ecx = entry->edx = 0;
>>           if (!kvm_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_AMX_TILE)) {
>> -            entry->eax = entry->ebx = entry->ecx = entry->edx = 0;
>> +            entry->ebx = 0;
>>               break;
>>           }
>> +        entry->ebx &= 0xffffffu;
>>           break;
>>       case KVM_CPUID_SIGNATURE: {
>>           const u32 *sigptr = (const u32 *)KVM_SIGNATURE;