KVM: x86: Revert MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD.FLUSH_L1D enabling
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:14:35 +0000 (18:14 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Apr 2023 17:37:35 +0000 (13:37 -0400)
commit52887af5650e35ea78b37602722313ff7b3c0c30
tree2cfd6279b1b1d9285ee8825f5efd6f154677a167
parentd8708b80fa0e6e21bc0c9e7276ad0bccef73b6e7
KVM: x86: Revert MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD.FLUSH_L1D enabling

Revert the recently added virtualizing of MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD, as both
the VMX and SVM are fatally buggy to guests that use MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD or
MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, and because the entire foundation of the logic is
flawed.

The most immediate problem is an inverted check on @cmd that results in
rejecting legal values.  SVM doubles down on bugs and drops the error,
i.e. silently breaks all guest mitigations based on the command MSRs.

The next issue is that neither VMX nor SVM was updated to mark
MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD as being a possible passthrough MSR,
which isn't hugely problematic, but does break MSR filtering and triggers
a WARN on VMX designed to catch this exact bug.

The foundational issues stem from the MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD code reusing
logic from MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, which in turn was likely copied from KVM's
support for MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL.  The copy+paste from MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
was misguided as MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD (and MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD) is a
write-only MSR, i.e. doesn't need the same "deferred passthrough"
shenanigans as MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL.

Revert all MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD enabling in one fell swoop so that there is
no point where KVM advertises, but does not support, L1D_FLUSH.

This reverts commits 45cf86f26148e549c5ba4a8ab32a390e4bde216e,
723d5fb0ffe4c02bd4edf47ea02c02e454719f28, and
a807b78ad04b2eaa348f52f5cc7702385b6de1ee.

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230317190432.GA863767%40dev-arch.thelio-3990X
Cc: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Message-Id: <20230322011440.2195485-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c