libs/guest: Fix migration compatibility with a security-patched Xen 4.13

xc_cpuid_apply_policy() provides compatibility for migration of a pre-4.14 VM
where no CPUID data was provided in the stream.

It guesses the various max-leaf limits, based on what was true at the time of
writing, but this was not correctly adapted when speculative security issues
forced the advertisement of new feature bits.  Of note are:

 * LFENCE-DISPATCH, in leaf 0x80000021.eax
 * BHI-CTRL, in leaf 0x7[2].edx

In both cases, a VM booted on a security-patched Xen 4.13, and then migrated
on to any newer version of Xen on the same or compatible hardware would have
these features stripped back because Xen is still editing the cpu-policy for
sanity behind the back of the toolstack.

For VMs using BHI_DIS_S to mitigate Native-BHI, this resulted in a failure to
restore the guests MSR_SPEC_CTRL setting:

  (XEN) HVM d7v0 load MSR 0x48 with value 0x401 failed
  (XEN) HVM7 restore: failed to load entry 20/0 rc -6

Fixes: e9b4fe263649 ("x86/cpuid: support LFENCE always serialising CPUID bit")
Fixes: f3709b15fc86 ("x86/cpuid: Infrastructure for cpuid word 7:2.edx")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: 28301682f492c1df2ff9c3e01a0aab6262bd925a
master date: 2024-12-03 12:20:41 +0000

diff --git a/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c b/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
index 4453178100ad302107e029da8cb08d4e7fc694e4..263a9d4787b6c380d9efc2a9de058b8a1e3bcc10 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
+++ b/tools/libs/guest/xg_cpuid_x86.c
@@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ int xc_cpuid_apply_policy(xc_interface *xch, uint32_t domid, bool restore,
          *
          * This restore path is used for incoming VMs with no CPUID data
          * i.e. originated on Xen 4.13 or earlier.  We must invent a policy
-         * compatible with what Xen 4.13 would have done on the same hardware.
+         * compatible with what a security-patched Xen 4.13 would have done on
+         * the same hardware.
          *
          * Specifically:
          * - Clamp max leaves.
@@ -657,8 +658,8 @@ int xc_cpuid_apply_policy(xc_interface *xch, uint32_t domid, bool restore,
         }
 
         p->policy.basic.max_leaf = min(p->policy.basic.max_leaf, 0xdu);
-        p->policy.feat.max_subleaf = 0;
-        p->policy.extd.max_leaf = min(p->policy.extd.max_leaf, 0x8000001c);
+        p->policy.feat.max_subleaf = min(p->policy.feat.max_subleaf, 0x2u);
+        p->policy.extd.max_leaf = min(p->policy.extd.max_leaf, 0x80000021);
     }
 
     if ( featureset )