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Commit 64c977f3 authored by Marios Pomonis's avatar Marios Pomonis Committed by Ben Hutchings
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KVM: x86: Protect kvm_lapic_reg_write() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks

commit 4bf79cb0 upstream.

This fixes a Spectre-v1/L1TF vulnerability in kvm_lapic_reg_write().
This function contains index computations based on the
(attacker-controlled) MSR number.

Fixes: 0105d1a5

 ("KVM: x2apic interface to lapic")

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Finco <nifi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarios Pomonis <pomonis@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Add #include <linux/nospec.h>
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 56b51e25
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