From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org
commit bea7e31a5caccb6fe8ed989c065072354f0ecb52 upstream.
For legacy IBRS to work, the IBRS bit needs to be always re-written after vmexit, even if it's already on.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -9781,8 +9781,13 @@ u64 __always_inline vmx_spec_ctrl_restor
/* * If the guest/host SPEC_CTRL values differ, restore the host value. + * + * For legacy IBRS, the IBRS bit always needs to be written after + * transitioning from a less privileged predictor mode, regardless of + * whether the guest/host values differ. */ - if (guestval != hostval) + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_KERNEL_IBRS) || + guestval != hostval) native_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, hostval);
barrier_nospec();