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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2012-06-12 11:42:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> | 2012-06-12 11:42:57 +0100 |
| commit | 2bdc98b10ed4abb0cea0a2b15b9f5116f9a50e9b (patch) | |
| tree | c5d1022b31ea330677fd514612c8c0f73bad3a41 | |
| parent | 087ade3adfa5390f3ae068cf36e6a6f85130706e (diff) | |
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x86-64: detect processors subject to AMD erratum #121 and refuse to boot
Processors with this erratum are subject to a DoS attack by unprivileged
guest users.
This is XSA-9 / CVE-2012-2934.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
xen-unstable changeset: 25481:422880dc94a4
xen-unstable date: Tue Jun 12 11:33:42 2012 +0100
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | xen/include/asm-x86/amd.h | 3 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c index d443cbd6d1..d3a44703ee 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpu/amd.c @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ static char opt_famrev[14]; string_param("cpuid_mask_cpu", opt_famrev); +static int opt_allow_unsafe; +boolean_param("allow_unsafe", opt_allow_unsafe); + static inline void wrmsr_amd(unsigned int index, unsigned int lo, unsigned int hi) { @@ -620,6 +623,11 @@ static void __devinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_MCE, c->x86_capability); #ifdef __x86_64__ + if (cpu_has_amd_erratum(c, AMD_ERRATUM_121) && !opt_allow_unsafe) + panic("Xen will not boot on this CPU for security reasons.\n" + "Pass \"allow_unsafe\" if you're trusting all your" + " (PV) guest kernels.\n"); + /* AMD CPUs do not support SYSENTER outside of legacy mode. */ clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_SEP, c->x86_capability); diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/amd.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/amd.h index 708fed2fd2..44d60f4944 100644 --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/amd.h +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/amd.h @@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ #define AMD_MODEL_RANGE_START(range) (((range) >> 12) & 0xfff) #define AMD_MODEL_RANGE_END(range) ((range) & 0xfff) +#define AMD_ERRATUM_121 \ + AMD_LEGACY_ERRATUM(AMD_MODEL_RANGE(0x0f, 0x0, 0x0, 0x3f, 0xf)) + #define AMD_ERRATUM_170 \ AMD_LEGACY_ERRATUM(AMD_MODEL_RANGE(0x0f, 0x0, 0x0, 0x67, 0xf)) |