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authorNicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>2018-07-18 19:07:38 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-07-19 12:34:26 +0200
commit288d152c23dcf3c09da46c5c481903ca10ebfef7 (patch)
tree927a16fa1bb8fd03461276fa6fb8c426c4c5753c /Documentation/admin-guide
parent6c26fcd2abfe0a56bbd95271fce02df2896cfd24 (diff)
x86/KVM/VMX: Initialize the vmx_l1d_flush_pages' content
The slow path in vmx_l1d_flush() reads from vmx_l1d_flush_pages in order to evict the L1d cache. However, these pages are never cleared and, in theory, their data could be leaked. More importantly, KSM could merge a nested hypervisor's vmx_l1d_flush_pages to fewer than 1 << L1D_CACHE_ORDER host physical pages and this would break the L1d flushing algorithm: L1D on x86_64 is tagged by physical addresses. Fix this by initializing the individual vmx_l1d_flush_pages with a different pattern each. Rename the "empty_zp" asm constraint identifier in vmx_l1d_flush() to "flush_pages" to reflect this change. Fixes: a47dd5f06714 ("x86/KVM/VMX: Add L1D flush algorithm") Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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