From: Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de>
To: <seanjc@google.com>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add array_index_nospec() to evmcs_field_offset()
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:30:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261017093016.32348-3-amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de> (raw)
evmcs_field_offset() bounds-checks the guest-supplied field index against
nr_evmcs_1_fields and then indexes vmcs_field_to_evmcs_1[] without an
array_index_nospec() clamp, unlike its vmcs12 counterpart
get_vmcs12_field_offset(). An enlightened VMREAD/VMWRITE from the guest
can therefore speculatively read out of bounds of vmcs_field_to_evmcs_1[]
past the bound check (Spectre v1).
Clamp the index with array_index_nospec(), mirroring
get_vmcs12_field_offset().
Signed-off-by: Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv_evmcs.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv_evmcs.h b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv_evmcs.h
index bc08fe405..052b62b8e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv_evmcs.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/hyperv_evmcs.h
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ static __always_inline int evmcs_field_offset(unsigned long field,
if (unlikely(index >= nr_evmcs_1_fields))
return -ENOENT;
+ index = array_index_nospec(index, nr_evmcs_1_fields);
+
evmcs_field = &vmcs_field_to_evmcs_1[index];
/*
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)
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