KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL

Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution of bogus indirect branch targets. It is also slower, so use native_wrmsrl() on the vmentry path too. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <[email protected]> Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]> Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Fixes: d28b387 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
olifre · Feb 23, 2018 · ecb586b · ecb586b
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
 #include <asm/kvm_para.h>
 #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
 #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
 
 #include <asm/virtext.h>
@@ -5355,7 +5356,7 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * being speculatively taken.
 	 */
 	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
 
 	asm volatile (
 		"push %%" _ASM_BP "; \n\t"
@@ -5465,10 +5466,10 @@ static void svm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * save it.
 	 */
 	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, svm->spec_ctrl);
+		svm->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (svm->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
 
 	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
 	vmexit_fill_RSB();

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include <asm/apic.h>
 #include <asm/irq_remapping.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
+#include <asm/microcode.h>
 #include <asm/nospec-branch.h>
 
 #include "trace.h"
@@ -9452,7 +9453,7 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * being speculatively taken.
 	 */
 	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
 
 	vmx->__launched = vmx->loaded_vmcs->launched;
 	asm(
@@ -9588,10 +9589,10 @@ static void __noclone vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	 * save it.
 	 */
 	if (!msr_write_intercepted(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL))
-		rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl);
+		vmx->spec_ctrl = native_read_msr(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL);
 
 	if (vmx->spec_ctrl)
-		wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
+		native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, 0);
 
 	/* Eliminate branch target predictions from guest mode */
 	vmexit_fill_RSB();