Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: x86: Expose CLZERO and XSAVEERPTR to the guest

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 07:12:31 EST


On 25/09/19 23:37, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I was surprised to see that the guest reported `fxsave_leak' while the
> host did not. After digging deeper I noticed that the bits are simply
> masked out during enumeration.
> The XSAVEERPTR feature is actually a bug fix on AMD which means the
> kernel can disable a workaround.
> While here, I've seen that CLZERO is also masked out. This opcode is
> unprivilged so exposing it to the guest should not make any difference.
>
> Pass CLZERO and XSAVEERPTR to the guest if available on the host.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 22c2720cd948e..0ae9194d0f4d2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_func(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
>
> /* cpuid 0x80000008.ebx */
> const u32 kvm_cpuid_8000_0008_ebx_x86_features =
> + F(CLZERO) | F(XSAVEERPTR) |
> F(WBNOINVD) | F(AMD_IBPB) | F(AMD_IBRS) | F(AMD_SSBD) | F(VIRT_SSBD) |
> F(AMD_SSB_NO) | F(AMD_STIBP) | F(AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON);
>
>

Applied (on top of Jim's CLZERO patch, so removing the CLZERO reference
in the commit message).

Paolo