KVM: VMX: Make CR0.WP a guest owned bit
authorMathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Mon, 8 May 2023 15:46:01 +0000 (17:46 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 May 2023 09:53:29 +0000 (11:53 +0200)
[ Upstream commit fb509f76acc8d42bed11bca308404f81c2be856a ]

Guests like grsecurity that make heavy use of CR0.WP to implement kernel
level W^X will suffer from the implied VMEXITs.

With EPT there is no need to intercept a guest change of CR0.WP, so
simply make it a guest owned bit if we can do so.

This implies that a read of a guest's CR0.WP bit might need a VMREAD.
However, the only potentially affected user seems to be kvm_init_mmu()
which is a heavy operation to begin with. But also most callers already
cache the full value of CR0 anyway, so no additional VMREAD is needed.
The only exception is nested_vmx_load_cr3().

This change is VMX-specific, as SVM has no such fine grained control
register intercept control.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230322013731.102955-7-minipli@grsecurity.net
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> # backport to v6.1.x
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h

index 3febc342360cc7524b6c1665ee7621a1d0e1228e..896cc7394944243eaf3e95cd9e83a0f053744f9e 100644 (file)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
 
-#define KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS X86_CR0_TS
+#define KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS    (X86_CR0_TS | X86_CR0_WP)
 #define KVM_POSSIBLE_CR4_GUEST_BITS                              \
        (X86_CR4_PVI | X86_CR4_DE | X86_CR4_PCE | X86_CR4_OSFXSR  \
         | X86_CR4_OSXMMEXCPT | X86_CR4_PGE | X86_CR4_TSD | X86_CR4_FSGSBASE)
index 8e56ec6e72e9d1913ea2e7d40b0a0d19949179b4..9d683b6067c7bcb1364109ce9e8fa00bf2b19588 100644 (file)
@@ -4460,7 +4460,7 @@ static void load_vmcs12_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
         * CR0_GUEST_HOST_MASK is already set in the original vmcs01
         * (KVM doesn't change it);
         */
-       vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS;
+       vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = vmx_l1_guest_owned_cr0_bits();
        vmx_set_cr0(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr0);
 
        /* Same as above - no reason to call set_cr4_guest_host_mask().  */
@@ -4611,7 +4611,7 @@ static void nested_vmx_restore_host_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
         */
        vmx_set_efer(vcpu, nested_vmx_get_vmcs01_guest_efer(vmx));
 
-       vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS;
+       vcpu->arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = vmx_l1_guest_owned_cr0_bits();
        vmx_set_cr0(vcpu, vmcs_readl(CR0_READ_SHADOW));
 
        vcpu->arch.cr4_guest_owned_bits = ~vmcs_readl(CR4_GUEST_HOST_MASK);
index 4984357c5d4414100fb1b3ea8ea2bbb8293e6016..07aab859224413fcd187e042b03b6e736d4c2875 100644 (file)
@@ -4695,7 +4695,7 @@ static void init_vmcs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
        /* 22.2.1, 20.8.1 */
        vm_entry_controls_set(vmx, vmx_vmentry_ctrl());
 
-       vmx->vcpu.arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS;
+       vmx->vcpu.arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits = vmx_l1_guest_owned_cr0_bits();
        vmcs_writel(CR0_GUEST_HOST_MASK, ~vmx->vcpu.arch.cr0_guest_owned_bits);
 
        set_cr4_guest_host_mask(vmx);
index a3da84f4ea45609d44f76857d0e4cf3162fe210e..e2b04f4c0fef301627a6b5170c6e5444c57c37f3 100644 (file)
@@ -640,6 +640,24 @@ BUILD_CONTROLS_SHADOW(tertiary_exec, TERTIARY_VM_EXEC_CONTROL, 64)
                                (1 << VCPU_EXREG_EXIT_INFO_1) | \
                                (1 << VCPU_EXREG_EXIT_INFO_2))
 
+static inline unsigned long vmx_l1_guest_owned_cr0_bits(void)
+{
+       unsigned long bits = KVM_POSSIBLE_CR0_GUEST_BITS;
+
+       /*
+        * CR0.WP needs to be intercepted when KVM is shadowing legacy paging
+        * in order to construct shadow PTEs with the correct protections.
+        * Note!  CR0.WP technically can be passed through to the guest if
+        * paging is disabled, but checking CR0.PG would generate a cyclical
+        * dependency of sorts due to forcing the caller to ensure CR0 holds
+        * the correct value prior to determining which CR0 bits can be owned
+        * by L1.  Keep it simple and limit the optimization to EPT.
+        */
+       if (!enable_ept)
+               bits &= ~X86_CR0_WP;
+       return bits;
+}
+
 static inline struct kvm_vmx *to_kvm_vmx(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
        return container_of(kvm, struct kvm_vmx, kvm);