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KVM: VMX: Zero out *all* general purpose registers after VM-Exit
authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:40:50 +0000 (07:40 -0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:12:14 +0000 (13:12 +0100)
commit0e0ab73c9a0243736bcd779b30b717e23ba9a56d
treed63f7f520fc0d8f338ea4b55c6bcc032a407cf26
parent1ce072cbfd8dba46f117804850398e0b3040a541
KVM: VMX: Zero out *all* general purpose registers after VM-Exit

...except RSP, which is restored by hardware as part of VM-Exit.

Paolo theorized that restoring registers from the stack after a VM-Exit
in lieu of zeroing them could lead to speculative execution with the
guest's values, e.g. if the stack accesses miss the L1 cache[1].
Zeroing XORs are dirt cheap, so just be ultra-paranoid.

Note that the scratch register (currently RCX) used to save/restore the
guest state is also zeroed as its host-defined value is loaded via the
stack, just with a MOV instead of a POP.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10771539/#22441255

Fixes: 0cb5b30698fd ("kvm: vmx: Scrub hardware GPRs at VM-exit")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c