KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered
It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions. This causes the
microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
another interrupt. The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
effects (CVE-2015-5307).
Signed-off-by: Eric Northup <digitaleric@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index f2ba919..1839264 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -1019,6 +1019,7 @@
set_exception_intercept(svm, PF_VECTOR);
set_exception_intercept(svm, UD_VECTOR);
set_exception_intercept(svm, MC_VECTOR);
+ set_exception_intercept(svm, AC_VECTOR);
set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_INTR);
set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_NMI);
@@ -1707,6 +1708,12 @@
return 1;
}
+static int ac_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
+{
+ kvm_queue_exception_e(&svm->vcpu, AC_VECTOR, 0);
+ return 1;
+}
+
static void svm_fpu_activate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
@@ -3270,6 +3277,7 @@
[SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + PF_VECTOR] = pf_interception,
[SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + NM_VECTOR] = nm_interception,
[SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + MC_VECTOR] = mc_interception,
+ [SVM_EXIT_EXCP_BASE + AC_VECTOR] = ac_interception,
[SVM_EXIT_INTR] = intr_interception,
[SVM_EXIT_NMI] = nmi_interception,
[SVM_EXIT_SMI] = nop_on_interception,