From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:60857 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932310AbeAJMRa (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:17:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:17:20 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit Message-ID: <20180110121720.GD12483@kroah.com> References: <20180109084620.24712-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180109084620.24712-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 09:46:20AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Jim Mattson > > [ upstream commit 0cb5b30698fdc8f6b4646012e3acb4ddce430788 ] > > Guest GPR values are live in the hardware GPRs at VM-exit. Do not > leave any guest values in hardware GPRs after the guest GPR values are > saved to the vcpu_vmx structure. > > This is a partial mitigation for CVE 2017-5715 and CVE 2017-5753. > Specifically, it defeats the Project Zero PoC for CVE 2017-5715. > > Suggested-by: Eric Northup > Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson > Reviewed-by: Eric Northup > Reviewed-by: Benjamin Serebrin > Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig > [Paolo: Add AMD bits, Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky ] > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Now applied, thanks. greg k-h