Nicolai Stange ae217320c1 x86/KVM/VMX: Initialize the vmx_l1d_flush_pages' content
commit 288d152c23dcf3c09da46c5c481903ca10ebfef7 upstream

The slow path in vmx_l1d_flush() reads from vmx_l1d_flush_pages in order
to evict the L1d cache.

However, these pages are never cleared and, in theory, their data could be
leaked.

More importantly, KSM could merge a nested hypervisor's vmx_l1d_flush_pages
to fewer than 1 << L1D_CACHE_ORDER host physical pages and this would break
the L1d flushing algorithm: L1D on x86_64 is tagged by physical addresses.

Fix this by initializing the individual vmx_l1d_flush_pages with a
different pattern each.

Rename the "empty_zp" asm constraint identifier in vmx_l1d_flush() to
"flush_pages" to reflect this change.

Fixes: a47dd5f06714 ("x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D flush algorithm")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-08-15 18:12:57 +02:00
2018-08-15 18:12:48 +02:00
2018-08-09 12:16:40 +02:00

Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
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