Other than the HVM emulation path, the PV case so far failed to check
that YMM state requires SSE state to be enabled, allowing for a #GP to
occur upon passing the inputs to XSETBV inside the hypervisor.
This is CVE-2013-2078 / XSA-54.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit:
365c95f7de789e1dca03f119eab7dc61fe0f77c9
master date: 2013-06-04 09:29:07 +0200
if ( !(new_xfeature & XSTATE_FP) || (new_xfeature & ~xfeature_mask) )
goto fail;
+ /* YMM state takes SSE state as prerequisite. */
+ if ( (xfeature_mask & new_xfeature & XSTATE_YMM) &&
+ !(new_xfeature & XSTATE_SSE) )
+ goto fail;
+
v->arch.xcr0 = new_xfeature;
v->arch.xcr0_accum |= new_xfeature;
set_xcr0(new_xfeature);