linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: x86: Protect kvm_lapic_reg

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Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:17:55 -0800
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Marios Pomonis <pomonis@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nick Finco <nifi@...gle.com>, Andrew Honig <ahonig@...gle.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: x86: Protect kvm_lapic_reg_write() from
 Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:48 PM Marios Pomonis <pomonis@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> This fixes a Spectre-v1/L1TF vulnerability in kvm_lapic_reg_write().
> This function contains index computations based on the
> (attacker-controlled) MSR number.
>
> Fixes: commit 0105d1a52640 ("KVM: x2apic interface to lapic")
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Finco <nifi@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marios Pomonis <pomonis@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@...gle.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>