[PATCH 4.19.y] KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Aug 16 2021 - 10:03:13 EST


From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>

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

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

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 5ddf63896d01..0398819410f1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -513,6 +513,9 @@ static void recalc_intercepts(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
c->intercept_dr = h->intercept_dr | g->intercept_dr;
c->intercept_exceptions = h->intercept_exceptions | g->intercept_exceptions;
c->intercept = h->intercept | g->intercept;
+
+ c->intercept |= (1ULL << INTERCEPT_VMLOAD);
+ c->intercept |= (1ULL << INTERCEPT_VMSAVE);
}

static inline struct vmcb *get_host_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
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2.26.3