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KVM: x86: Protect x86_decode_insn from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks
authorMarios Pomonis <pomonis@google.com>
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:47:41 +0000 (12:47 -0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:59:35 +0000 (19:59 +0100)
commit00f469662ac64bb0496f72ce17afc9031a5e31bc
treef467c18a592af256a1117083298575c9992720e6
parent794b0b97523e862117ece47e27840614fe40e8fb
KVM: x86: Protect x86_decode_insn from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks

This fixes a Spectre-v1/L1TF vulnerability in x86_decode_insn().
kvm_emulate_instruction() (an ancestor of x86_decode_insn()) is an exported
symbol, so KVM should treat it conservatively from a security perspective.

Fixes: 8092dce85b32 ("KVM: emulator: implement fninit, fnstsw, fnstcw")
Signed-off-by: Nick Finco <nifi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marios Pomonis <pomonis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c