[Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/HVM: only kill guest when unknown VM exit occurred in guest kernel mode

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

A recent KVM change by Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> pointed out
that unconditional VM exits (like VMX'es ones for the INVEPT, INVVPID,
and XSETBV instructions) may result from guest user mode activity (in
the example cases, e.g. prior to a privilege level check being done).
Consequently convert the unconditional domain_crash() to a conditional
one (when guest is in kernel mode) with the alternative of injecting
#UD (when in user mode).

This is meant to be a precaution against in-guest security issues
introduced when any such VM exit becomes possible (on newer hardware)
without the hypervisor immediately being aware of it. There are no such
unhandled VM exits currently (and hence this is not an active security
issue), but old (no longer security maintained) versions exhibit issues
in the cases given as examples above.

Suggested-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -2680,7 +2680,11 @@ void svm_vmexit_handler(struct cpu_user_
                  "exitinfo1 = %#"PRIx64", exitinfo2 = %#"PRIx64"\n",
                  exit_reason, 
                  (u64)vmcb->exitinfo1, (u64)vmcb->exitinfo2);
-        domain_crash(v->domain);
+        if ( vmcb_get_cpl(vmcb) )
+            hvm_inject_hw_exception(TRAP_invalid_op,
+                                    HVM_DELIVER_NO_ERROR_CODE);
+        else
+            domain_crash(v->domain);
         break;
     }
 
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -3157,8 +3157,19 @@ void vmx_vmexit_handler(struct cpu_user_
     /* fall through */
     default:
     exit_and_crash:
-        gdprintk(XENLOG_ERR, "Bad vmexit (reason %#lx)\n", exit_reason);
-        domain_crash(v->domain);
+        {
+            struct segment_register ss;
+
+            gdprintk(XENLOG_WARNING, "Bad vmexit (reason %#lx)\n",
+                     exit_reason);
+
+            vmx_get_segment_register(v, x86_seg_ss, &ss);
+            if ( ss.attr.fields.dpl )
+                hvm_inject_hw_exception(TRAP_invalid_op,
+                                        HVM_DELIVER_NO_ERROR_CODE);
+            else
+                domain_crash(v->domain);
+        }
         break;
     }

Attachment: x86-HVM-unknown-exits-user-mode.patch
Description: Text document

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