According to AMD's Speculative Return Stack Overflow whitepaper (link
below), the hypervisor should synthesize the value of IBPB_BRTYPE and
SBPB CPUID bits to the guest.
Support for this is already present in the kernel with commit
e47d86083c66 ("KVM: x86: Add SBPB support") and commit 6f0f23ef76be
("KVM: x86: Add IBPB_BRTYPE support").
Add support in QEMU to expose the bits to the guest OS.
host:
# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow
Mitigation: Safe RET
before (guest):
$ cpuid -l 0x80000021 -1 -r
0x80000021 0x00: eax=0x00000045 ebx=0x00000000 ecx=0x00000000 edx=0x00000000
^
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow
Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode
after (guest):
$ cpuid -l 0x80000021 -1 -r
0x80000021 0x00: eax=0x18000045 ebx=0x00000000 ecx=0x00000000 edx=0x00000000
^
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow
Mitigation: Safe RET
Reported-by: Fabian Vogt <fv...@suse.de>
Link:
https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/corporate/cr/speculative-return-stack-overflow-whitepaper.pdf
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <faro...@suse.de>
---
More info on this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/68f8b8b1ca1bf58b059f52afbd1c9c51108a074a.ca...@suse.com
---
target/i386/cpu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 85ef7452c0..d33401c922 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -1221,8 +1221,8 @@ FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
- NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
- NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
+ NULL, NULL, NULL, "sbpb",
+ "ibpb-brtype", NULL, NULL, NULL,
},
.cpuid = { .eax = 0x80000021, .reg = R_EAX, },
.tcg_features = 0,
--
2.35.3
