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Sean Christopherson 4135a9a8cc KVM: SEV: Validate XCR0 provided by guest in GHCB
Use __kvm_set_xcr() to propagate XCR0 changes from the GHCB to KVM's
software model in order to validate the new XCR0 against KVM's view of
the supported XCR0.  Allowing garbage is thankfully mostly benign, as
kvm_load_{guest,host}_xsave_state() bail early for vCPUs with protected
state, xstate_required_size() will simply provide garbage back to the
guest, and attempting to save/restore the bad value via KVM_{G,S}ET_XCRS
will only harm the guest (setting XCR0 will fail).

However, allowing the guest to put junk into a field that KVM assumes is
valid is a CVE waiting to happen.  And as a bonus, using the proper API
eliminates the ugly open coding of setting arch.cpuid_dynamic_bits_dirty.

Simply ignore bad values, as either the guest managed to get an
unsupported value into hardware, or the guest is misbehaving and providing
pure garbage.  In either case, KVM can't fix the broken guest.

Note, using __kvm_set_xcr() also avoids recomputing dynamic CPUID bits
if XCR0 isn't actually changing (relatively to KVM's previous snapshot).

Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Fixes: 291bd20d5d ("KVM: SVM: Add initial support for a VMGEXIT VMEXIT")
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919223258.1604852-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
2025-09-23 08:55:19 -07:00
Documentation - Remove a transitional asm/cpuid.h header which was added only as 2025-08-17 06:53:15 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch KVM: SEV: Validate XCR0 provided by guest in GHCB 2025-09-23 08:55:19 -07:00
block block: restore default wbt enablement 2025-08-13 05:33:48 -06:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
drivers - Remove a transitional asm/cpuid.h header which was added only as 2025-08-17 06:53:15 -07:00
fs xfs: Fixes for 6.17-rc2 2025-08-15 12:50:12 -07:00
include - Make sure sanity checks down in the mutex lock path happen on the correct 2025-08-17 05:57:47 -07:00
init Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/io-wq: add check free worker before create new worker 2025-08-13 06:31:10 -06:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel - Make sure sanity checks down in the mutex lock path happen on the correct 2025-08-17 05:57:47 -07:00
lib Including fixes from Netfilter and IPsec. 2025-08-14 07:14:30 -07:00
mm mm/mremap: avoid expensive folio lookup on mremap folio pte batch 2025-08-11 23:00:59 -07:00
net Including fixes from Netfilter and IPsec. 2025-08-14 07:14:30 -07:00
rust rust: kbuild: clean output before running `rustdoc` 2025-08-12 21:10:50 +02:00
samples Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
security + Features 2025-08-04 08:17:28 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/tas2781: Normalize the volume kcontrol name 2025-08-14 11:17:12 +02:00
tools Including fixes from Netfilter and IPsec. 2025-08-14 07:14:30 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Kbuild updates for v6.17 2025-08-06 07:32:52 +03:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Including fixes from Netfilter and IPsec. 2025-08-14 07:14:30 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17-rc2 2025-08-17 15:22:10 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.