Patch "KVM: SVM: do not zero out segment attributes if segment is unusable or not present" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "KVM: SVM: do not zero out segment attributes if segment is unusable or not present" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    KVM: SVM: do not zero out segment attributes if segment is unusable or not present

to the 4.9-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-svm-do-not-zero-out-segment-attributes-if-segment-is-unusable-or-not-present.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 foo@baz Mon Apr  9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 10:55:03 +0200
Subject: KVM: SVM: do not zero out segment attributes if segment is unusable or not present

From: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>


[ Upstream commit d9c1b5431d5f0e07575db785a022bce91051ac1d ]

This is a fix for the problem [1], where VMCB.CPL was set to 0 and interrupt
was taken on userspace stack.  The root cause lies in the specific AMD CPU
behaviour which manifests itself as unusable segment attributes on SYSRET.
The corresponding work around for the kernel is the following:

61f01dd941ba ("x86_64, asm: Work around AMD SYSRET SS descriptor attribute issue")

In other turn virtualization side treated unusable segment incorrectly and
restored CPL from SS attributes, which were zeroed out few lines above.

In current patch it is assured only that P bit is cleared in VMCB.save state
and segment attributes are not zeroed out if segment is not presented or is
unusable, therefore CPL can be safely restored from DPL field.

This is only one part of the fix, since QEMU side should be fixed accordingly
not to zero out attributes on its side.  Corresponding patch will follow.

[1] Message id: CAJrWOzD6Xq==b-zYCDdFLgSRMPM-NkNuTSDFEtX=7MreT45i7Q@mail.gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Sennikovskii <mikhail.sennikovskii@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim KrÄmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |   24 +++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -1879,6 +1879,7 @@ static void svm_get_segment(struct kvm_v
 		 */
 		if (var->unusable)
 			var->db = 0;
+		/* This is symmetric with svm_set_segment() */
 		var->dpl = to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb->save.cpl;
 		break;
 	}
@@ -2024,18 +2025,14 @@ static void svm_set_segment(struct kvm_v
 	s->base = var->base;
 	s->limit = var->limit;
 	s->selector = var->selector;
-	if (var->unusable)
-		s->attrib = 0;
-	else {
-		s->attrib = (var->type & SVM_SELECTOR_TYPE_MASK);
-		s->attrib |= (var->s & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_S_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->dpl & 3) << SVM_SELECTOR_DPL_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->present & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_P_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->avl & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_AVL_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->l & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_L_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->db & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_DB_SHIFT;
-		s->attrib |= (var->g & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_G_SHIFT;
-	}
+	s->attrib = (var->type & SVM_SELECTOR_TYPE_MASK);
+	s->attrib |= (var->s & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_S_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= (var->dpl & 3) << SVM_SELECTOR_DPL_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= ((var->present & 1) && !var->unusable) << SVM_SELECTOR_P_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= (var->avl & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_AVL_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= (var->l & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_L_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= (var->db & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_DB_SHIFT;
+	s->attrib |= (var->g & 1) << SVM_SELECTOR_G_SHIFT;
 
 	/*
 	 * This is always accurate, except if SYSRET returned to a segment
@@ -2044,7 +2041,8 @@ static void svm_set_segment(struct kvm_v
 	 * would entail passing the CPL to userspace and back.
 	 */
 	if (seg == VCPU_SREG_SS)
-		svm->vmcb->save.cpl = (s->attrib >> SVM_SELECTOR_DPL_SHIFT) & 3;
+		/* This is symmetric with svm_get_segment() */
+		svm->vmcb->save.cpl = (var->dpl & 3);
 
 	mark_dirty(svm->vmcb, VMCB_SEG);
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com are

queue-4.9/kvm-svm-do-not-zero-out-segment-attributes-if-segment-is-unusable-or-not-present.patch