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Change History

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/kvm: Disable kvmclock on all CPUs on shutdown

Currenly, we disable kvmclock from machine_shutdown() hook and this
only happens for boot CPU. We need to disable it for all CPUs to
guard against memory corruption e.g. on restore from hibernate.

Note, writing '0' to kvmclock MSR doesn't clear memory location, it
just prevents hypervisor from updating the location so for the short
while after write and while CPU is still aliv

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1df2dc09926f61319116c80ee85701df33577d70 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b0becf8b1ecf642a9edaf4c9628ffc641e490d6 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9084fe1b3572664ad276f427dce575f580c9799a [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c02027b5742b5aa804ef08a4a9db433295533046 [No types assigned]