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Commit 9de6fe3c authored by Xiaoyao Li's avatar Xiaoyao Li Committed by Borislav Petkov
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KVM: x86: Emulate split-lock access as a write in emulator

Emulate split-lock accesses as writes if split lock detection is on
to avoid #AC during emulation, which will result in a panic(). This
should never occur for a well-behaved guest, but a malicious guest can
manipulate the TLB to trigger emulation of a locked instruction[1].

More discussion can be found at [2][3].

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c5b11c9-58df-38e7-a514-dc12d687b198@redhat.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200131200134.GD18946@linux.intel.com
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227001117.GX9940@linux.intel.com



Suggested-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200410115517.084300242@linutronix.de
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