[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] cpu: define the 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bit (CVE-2018-3639)
Some AMD processors only support a non-architectural means of
enabling Speculative Store Bypass Disable. To allow simplified
handling in virtual environments, hypervisors will expose an
architectural definition through CPUID bit 0x80000008_EBX[25].
This needs to be exposed to guest OS running on AMD x86 hosts to
allow them to protect against CVE-2018-3639.
Note that since this CPUID bit won't be present in the host CPUID
results on physical hosts, it will not be enabled automatically
in guests configured with "host-model" CPU unless using QEMU
version >= 2.9.0. Thus for older versions of QEMU, this feature
must be manually enabled using policy=force. Guests using the
"host-passthrough" CPU mode do not need special handling.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com>
---
src/cpu/cpu_map.xml | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml b/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
index 245aec3309..96daa0f9af 100644
--- a/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
+++ b/src/cpu/cpu_map.xml
@@ -433,6 +433,9 @@
<feature name='ibpb'>
<cpuid eax_in='0x80000008' ebx='0x00001000'/>
</feature>
+ <feature name='virt-ssbd'>
+ <cpuid eax_in='0x80000008' ebx='0x02000000'/>
+ </feature>
<!-- models -->
<model name='486'>
--
2.17.0