From: Andrew Cooper Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Fix IST handling during PCPU bringup Clear IST references in newly allocated IDTs. Nothing good will come of having them set before the TSS is suitably constructed (although the chances of the CPU surviving such an IST interrupt/exception is extremely slim). Uniformly set the IST references after the TSS is in place. This fixes an issue on AMD hardware, where onlining a PCPU while PCPU0 is in HVM context will cause IST_NONE to be copied into the new IDT, making that PCPU vulnerable to privilege escalation from PV guests until it subsequently schedules an HVM guest. This is XSA-244 Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich --- xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c | 5 +++++ xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c index 78f5667..6cf3628 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c @@ -640,6 +640,7 @@ void __init early_cpu_init(void) * - Sets up TSS with stack pointers, including ISTs * - Inserts TSS selector into regular and compat GDTs * - Loads GDT, IDT, TR then null LDT + * - Sets up IST references in the IDT */ void load_system_tables(void) { @@ -702,6 +703,10 @@ void load_system_tables(void) asm volatile ("ltr %w0" : : "rm" (TSS_ENTRY << 3) ); asm volatile ("lldt %w0" : : "rm" (0) ); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_double_fault], IST_DF); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_nmi], IST_NMI); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_machine_check], IST_MCE); + /* * Bottom-of-stack must be 16-byte aligned! * diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c index 3ca716c..1609b62 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/smpboot.c @@ -724,6 +724,9 @@ static int cpu_smpboot_alloc(unsigned int cpu) if ( idt_tables[cpu] == NULL ) goto oom; memcpy(idt_tables[cpu], idt_table, IDT_ENTRIES * sizeof(idt_entry_t)); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_double_fault], IST_NONE); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_nmi], IST_NONE); + set_ist(&idt_tables[cpu][TRAP_machine_check], IST_NONE); for ( stub_page = 0, i = cpu & ~(STUBS_PER_PAGE - 1); i < nr_cpu_ids && i <= (cpu | (STUBS_PER_PAGE - 1)); ++i )