linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Set vmcs.PENDING_DBG.BS on #DB in STI/MOVSS blocking shadow

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:11:23 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Set vmcs.PENDING_DBG.BS on #DB in STI/MOVSS
 blocking shadow

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Set vmcs.GUEST_PENDING_DBG_EXCEPTIONS.BS, a.k.a. the pending single-step
> breakpoint flag, when re-injecting a #DB with RFLAGS.TF=1, and STI or
> MOVSS blocking is active.  Setting the flag is necessary to make VM-Entry
> consistency checks happy, as VMX has an invariant that if RFLAGS.TF is
> set and STI/MOVSS blocking is true, then the previous instruction must
> have been STI or MOV/POP, and therefore a single-step #DB must be pending
> since the RFLAGS.TF cannot have been set by the previous instruction,
> i.e. the one instruction delay after setting RFLAGS.TF must have already
> expired.
> 
> Normally, the CPU sets vmcs.GUEST_PENDING_DBG_EXCEPTIONS.BS appropriately
> when recording guest state as part of a VM-Exit, but #DB VM-Exits
> intentionally do not treat the #DB as "guest state" as interception of
> the #DB effectively makes the #DB host-owned, thus KVM needs to manually
> set PENDING_DBG.BS when forwarding/re-injecting the #DB to the guest.
> 
> Note, although this bug can be triggered by guest userspace, doing so
> requires IOPL=3, and guest userspace running with IOPL=3 has full access
> to all I/O ports (from the guest's perspective) and can crash/reboot the
> guest any number of ways.  IOPL=3 is required because STI blocking kicks
> in if and only if RFLAGS.IF is toggled 0=>1, and if CPL>IOPL, STI either
> takes a #GP or modifies RFLAGS.VIF, not RFLAGS.IF.
> 
> MOVSS blocking can be initiated by userspace, but can be coincident with
> a #DB if and only if DR7.GD=1 (General Detect enabled) and a MOV DR is
> executed in the MOVSS shadow.  MOV DR #GPs at CPL>0, thus MOVSS blocking
> is problematic only for CPL0 (and only if the guest is crazy enough to
> access a DR in a MOVSS shadow).  All other sources of #DBs are either
> suppressed by MOVSS blocking (single-step, code fetch, data, and I/O),
> are mutually exclusive with MOVSS blocking (T-bit task switch), or are
> already handled by KVM (ICEBP, a.k.a. INT1).
> 
> This bug was originally found by running tests[1] created for XSA-308[2].
> Note that Xen's userspace test emits ICEBP in the MOVSS shadow, which is
> presumably why the Xen bug was deemed to be an exploitable DOS from guest
> userspace.  KVM already handles ICEBP by skipping the ICEBP instruction
> and thus clears MOVSS blocking as a side effect of its "emulation".
> 
> [1] http://xenbits.xenproject.org/docs/xtf/xsa-308_2main_8c_source.html
> [2] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-308.html
> 
> Reported-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Reported-by: Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.de>

Doh, forgot to add:

  Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>