KVM: x86: Add memory barrier on vmcs field lookup

This adds a memory barrier when performing a lookup into
the vmcs_field_to_offset_table.  This is related to
CVE-2017-5753.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index a6f4f095f8f4eb4aa5b4bae2a21dd66cccd824e7..7f8fcc5ce664debcfe640066143e2158c7098abc 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -884,8 +884,16 @@ static inline short vmcs_field_to_offset(unsigned long field)
 {
        BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table) > SHRT_MAX);
 
-       if (field >= ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table) ||
-           vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field] == 0)
+       if (field >= ARRAY_SIZE(vmcs_field_to_offset_table))
+               return -ENOENT;
+
+       /*
+        * FIXME: Mitigation for CVE-2017-5753.  To be replaced with a
+        * generic mechanism.
+        */
+       asm("lfence");
+
+       if (vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field] == 0)
                return -ENOENT;
 
        return vmcs_field_to_offset_table[field];