KVM: x86: only do L1TF workaround on affected processors
KVM stores the gfn in MMIO SPTEs as a caching optimization. These are split in two parts, as in "[high 11111 low]", to thwart any attempt to use these bits in an L1TF attack. This works as long as there are 5 free bits between MAXPHYADDR and bit 50 (inclusive), leaving bit 51 free so that the MMIO access triggers a reserved-bit-set page fault. The bit positions however were computed wrongly for AMD processors that have encryption support. In this case, x86_phys_bits is reduced (for example from 48 to 43, to account for the C bit at position 47 and four bits used internally to store the SEV ASID and other stuff) while x86_cache_bits in would remain set to 48, and _all_ bits between the reduced MAXPHYADDR and bit 51 are set. Then low_phys_bits would also cover some of the bits that are set in the shadow_mmio_value, terribly confusing the gfn caching mechanism. To fix this, avoid splitting gfns as long as the processor does not have the L1TF bug (which includes all AMD processors). When there is no splitting, low_phys_bits can be set to the reduced MAXPHYADDR removing the overlap. This fixes "npt=0" operation on EPYC processors. Thanks to Maxim Levitsky for bisecting this bug. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 52918ed5 ("KVM: SVM: Override default MMIO mask if memory encryption is enabled") Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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