Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] KVM: x86: Protect ioapic_read_indirect() from Spectre-v1/L1TF attacks

[Jim Mattson]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:48 PM Marios Pomonis <pomonis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This fixes a Spectre-v1/L1TF vulnerability in ioapic_read_indirect().
> This function contains index computations based on the
> (attacker-controlled) IOREGSEL register.
>
> Fixes: commit a2c118bfab8b ("KVM: Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads (CVE-2013-1798)")
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Finco <nifi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marios Pomonis <pomonis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>