The recent BlackHat 2015 presentation "The Memory Sinkhole"
mentions that the IDT limit is zeroed on entry to SMM.
This is not documented, and must have changed some time after 2010
(see http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/uploads/IMG/pdf/IT_Defense_2010_final.pdf).
KVM was not doing it, but the fix is easy.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
static void process_smi(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_segment cs, ds;
+ struct desc_ptr dt;
char buf[512];
u32 cr0;
kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4(vcpu, 0);
+ /* Undocumented: IDT limit is set to zero on entry to SMM. */
+ dt.address = dt.size = 0;
+ kvm_x86_ops->set_idt(vcpu, &dt);
+
__kvm_set_dr(vcpu, 7, DR7_FIXED_1);
cs.selector = (vcpu->arch.smbase >> 4) & 0xffff;