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Commit c7dfa400 authored by Maxim Levitsky's avatar Maxim Levitsky Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested (CVE-2021-3656)

If L1 disables VMLOAD/VMSAVE intercepts, and doesn't enable
Virtual VMLOAD/VMSAVE (currently not supported for the nested hypervisor),
then VMLOAD/VMSAVE must operate on the L1 physical memory, which is only
possible by making L0 intercept these instructions.

Failure to do so allowed the nested guest to run VMLOAD/VMSAVE unintercepted,
and thus read/write portions of the host physical memory.

Fixes: 89c8a498

 ("KVM: SVM: Enable Virtual VMLOAD VMSAVE feature")

Suggested-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 0f923e07
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