In the Zen1 microarchitecure, there is one divider in the pipeline which
services uops from both threads. In the case of #DE, the latched result from
the previous DIV to execute will be forwarded speculatively.
This is an interesting covert channel that allows two threads to communicate
without any system calls. In also allows userspace to obtain the result of
the most recent DIV instruction executed (even speculatively) in the core,
which can be from a higher privilege context.
Scrub the result from the divider by executing a non-faulting divide. This
needs performing on the exit-to-guest paths, and ist_exit-to-Xen.
Alternatives in IST context is believed safe now that it's done in NMI
context.
This is XSA-439 / CVE-2023-20588.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
(cherry picked from commit b5926c6ecf)
Andrew Cooper
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