KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:43:17 +0000 (16:43 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 9 Mar 2018 06:41:24 +0000 (22:41 -0800)
commit0d62a56dc454699790a43a57ffa4258ff909b3f5
tree4df91fb125e09fec189c93848d435ea97fe08ccd
parent7135aaf3ed637b298e7df848095ea53f24c1a8f8
KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL

commit ecb586bd29c99fb4de599dec388658e74388daad upstream.

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 <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d28b387fb74da95d69d2615732f50cceb38e9a4d
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-2-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c