[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ms/kvm: nVMX: Allow L1 to intercept software exceptions (#BP and #OF)

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Wed Jan 11 07:00:38 PST 2017


Please consider to create a ReadyKernel live patch for this issue.

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Best regards,

Konstantin Khorenko,
Virtuozzo Linux Kernel Team

On 01/11/2017 05:56 PM, Konstantin Khorenko wrote:
> The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-514.vz7.27.x-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
> after rh7-3.10.0-514.vz7.27.9
> ------>
> commit 7efd73d3548321581182145c349fadcce13ad00b
> Author: Jim Mattson <jmattson at google.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 11 18:56:16 2017 +0400
>
>     ms/kvm: nVMX: Allow L1 to intercept software exceptions (#BP and #OF)
>
>     When L2 exits to L0 due to "exception or NMI", software exceptions
>     (#BP and #OF) for which L1 has requested an intercept should be
>     handled by L1 rather than L0. Previously, only hardware exceptions
>     were forwarded to L1.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson at google.com>
>     Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>     Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
>
>     Backport of ms commit ef85b67385436ddc1998f45f1d6a210f935b3388
>     Fixes CVE-2016-9588
>     https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-9588
>
>     https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-58194
>
>     Signed-off-by: Evgeny Yakovlev <eyakovlev at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index 3d39923..8dea43b9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -1243,10 +1243,10 @@ static inline bool nested_cpu_has_posted_intr(struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
>  	return vmcs12->pin_based_vm_exec_control & PIN_BASED_POSTED_INTR;
>  }
>
> -static inline bool is_exception(u32 intr_info)
> +static inline bool is_nmi(u32 intr_info)
>  {
>  	return (intr_info & (INTR_INFO_INTR_TYPE_MASK | INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK))
> -		== (INTR_TYPE_HARD_EXCEPTION | INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK);
> +		== (INTR_TYPE_NMI_INTR | INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK);
>  }
>
>  static void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason,
> @@ -5185,7 +5185,7 @@ static int handle_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	if (is_machine_check(intr_info))
>  		return handle_machine_check(vcpu);
>
> -	if ((intr_info & INTR_INFO_INTR_TYPE_MASK) == INTR_TYPE_NMI_INTR)
> +	if (is_nmi(intr_info))
>  		return 1;  /* already handled by vmx_vcpu_run() */
>
>  	if (is_no_device(intr_info)) {
> @@ -7629,7 +7629,7 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
>  	switch (exit_reason) {
>  	case EXIT_REASON_EXCEPTION_NMI:
> -		if (!is_exception(intr_info))
> +		if (is_nmi(intr_info))
>  			return false;
>  		else if (is_page_fault(intr_info))
>  			return enable_ept;
> @@ -8226,8 +8226,7 @@ static void vmx_complete_atomic_exit(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>  		kvm_machine_check();
>
>  	/* We need to handle NMIs before interrupts are enabled */
> -	if ((exit_intr_info & INTR_INFO_INTR_TYPE_MASK) == INTR_TYPE_NMI_INTR &&
> -	    (exit_intr_info & INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK)) {
> +	if (is_nmi(exit_intr_info)) {
>  		kvm_before_handle_nmi(&vmx->vcpu);
>  		asm("int $2");
>  		kvm_after_handle_nmi(&vmx->vcpu);
> .
>


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