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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:54:36 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Marius Hillenbrand <mhillenb@...zon.de>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.de>, David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] Process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 8:50 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/17/19 12:38 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> Yes I know, but as a benefit we could get rid of all the GSBASE
> >> horrors in
> >> the entry code as we could just put the percpu space into the local PGD.
> >
> > Would that mean that with Meltdown affected CPUs we open speculation
> > attacks against the mmlocal memory from KVM user space?
>
> Not necessarily. There would likely be a _set_ of local PGDs. We could
> still have pair of PTI PGDs just like we do know, they'd just be a local
> PGD pair.
>
Unfortunately, this would mean that we need to sync twice as many
top-level entries when we context switch.
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