KVM: VMX: Fix IBRS handling after vmexit
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:55:31 +0000 (13:55 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 1 Nov 2022 18:14:45 +0000 (19:14 +0100)
commit bea7e31a5caccb6fe8ed989c065072354f0ecb52 upstream.

For legacy IBRS to work, the IBRS bit needs to be always re-written
after vmexit, even if it's already on.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

index 539720a8e09419c07e922f4bdeb031f8c2873b09..e35cb9560eeb7ebc2cf992edbc7b7e248ae083e2 100644 (file)
@@ -9781,8 +9781,13 @@ u64 __always_inline vmx_spec_ctrl_restore_host(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 
        /*
         * If the guest/host SPEC_CTRL values differ, restore the host value.
+        *
+        * For legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit always needs to be written after
+        * transitioning from a less privileged predictor mode, regardless of
+        * whether the guest/host values differ.
         */
-       if (guestval != hostval)
+       if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS) ||
+           guestval != hostval)
                native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, hostval);
 
        barrier_nospec();