Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/cpuid: Exclude unpermitted xfeatures for vcpu->arch.guest_supported_xcr0

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Like Xu <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@intel.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhong, Yang" <yang.zhong@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/cpuid: Exclude unpermitted xfeatures for vcpu->arch.guest_supported_xcr0
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:29:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5744e0b-00fc-8563-edb7-b6bf52c63b0e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ye7SbfPL/QAjOI6s@google.com>

On 1/24/22 17:23, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, Like Xu wrote:
>> On 24/1/2022 3:06 pm, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>>>> From: Like Xu <like.xu.linux@gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 1:50 PM
>>>>
>>>> From: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
>>>>
>>>> A malicious user space can bypass xstate_get_guest_group_perm() in the
>>>> KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID mechanism and obtain unpermitted xfeatures,
>>>> since the validity check of xcr0 depends only on guest_supported_xcr0.
>>>
>>> Unpermitted xfeatures cannot pass kvm_check_cpuid()...
>>
>> Indeed, 5ab2f45bba4894a0db4af8567da3efd6228dd010.
>>
>> This part of logic is pretty fragile and fragmented due to semantic
>> inconsistencies between supported_xcr0 and guest_supported_xcr0
>> in other three places:
> 
> There are no inconsistencies, at least not in the examples below, as the examples
> are intended to work in host context.  guest_supported_xcr0 is about what the guest
> is/isn't allowed to access, it has no bearing on what host userspace can/can't do.
> Or are you talking about a different type of inconsistency?

The extra complication is that arch_prctl(ARCH_REQ_XCOMP_GUEST_PERM) 
changes what host userspace can/can't do.  It would be easier if we 
could just say that KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID returns "the most" that 
userspace can do, but we already have the contract that userspace can
take KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID and pass it straight to KVM_SET_CPUID2.

Therefore,  KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID must limit its returned values to 
what has already been enabled.

While reviewing the QEMU part of AMX support (this morning), I also 
noticed that there is no equivalent for guest permissions of 
ARCH_GET_XCOMP_SUPP.  This needs to know KVM's supported_xcr0, so it's 
probably best realized as a new KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION rather than as an 
arch_prctl.

Paolo

>> - __do_cpuid_func
> 
> Reporting what KVM supports to host userspace.
> 
>> - kvm_mpx_supported
> 
> This is a check on host support.
> 
>> - kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_xsave
> 
> "write" from host userspace.
> 
>> Have you identified all their areas of use ?
> 