From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Infinite loops in microcode while running guests Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:08:11 +0100 Message-ID: <56449D4B.8050500@siemens.com> References: <1447158174-10484-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <564338F6.3070207@gmail.com> <56433D93.8070702@redhat.com> <56433EB7.2070507@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: digitaleric@google.com To: Austin S Hemmelgarn , Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <56433EB7.2070507@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 2015-11-11 14:12, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > On 2015-11-11 08:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> On 11/11/2015 13:47, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: >>>> >>> I just finished running a couple of tests in a KVM instance running >>> nested on a Xen HVM instance, and found no issues, so for the set as a >>> whole: >>> >>> Tested-by: Austin S. Hemmelgarn >>> >>> Now to hope the equivalent fix for Xen gets into the Gentoo repositories >>> soon, as the issue propagates down through nested virtualization and >>> ties up the CPU regardless (and in turn triggers the watchdog). >> >> Note that nested guests should _not_ lock up the outer (L0) hypervisor >> if the outer hypervisor has the fix. At least this is the case for KVM: >> a fixed outer KVM can protect any vulnerable nested (L1) hypervisor from >> malicious nested guests. A vulnerable outer KVM is also protected if >> the nested hypervisor has the workaround. >> > I already knew this, I just hadn't remembered that I hadn't updated Xen > since before the XSA and patch for this had been posted (and it took me > a while to remember this when I accidentally panicked Xen :)) > As I'm lazy, both to search and to write something myself: is there already a test case for the issue(s) circling around? Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux