linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.12.y] KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)

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Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:02:39 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.12.y] KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)

From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>

[ upstream commit c7dfa4009965a9b2d7b329ee970eb8da0d32f0bc ]

If L1 disables VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts, and doesn't enable
Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE (currently not supported for the nested hypervisor),
then VMLOAD/VMSAVE must operate on the L1 physical memory, which is only
possible by making L0 intercept these instructions.

Failure to do so allowed the nested guest to run VMLOAD/VMSAVE unintercepted,
and thus read/write portions of the host physical memory.

Fixes: 89c8a4984fc9 ("KVM: SVM: Enable Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE feature")

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
	The above upstream SHA1 is still on its way to Linus

 arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 4b8635d2296a..8d96c28deadb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ void recalc_intercepts(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_INTERCEPT; i++)
 		c->intercepts[i] |= g->intercepts[i];
+
+	vmcb_set_intercept(c, INTERCEPT_VMLOAD);
+	vmcb_set_intercept(c, INTERCEPT_VMSAVE);
 }
 
 static void copy_vmcb_control_area(struct vmcb_control_area *dst,
-- 
2.26.3