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Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is available
in various CPU internal buffers.
1. Mitigation on ACRN:
1) Microcode update is required.
2) Clear CPU internal buffers (store buffer, load buffer and
load port) if current CPU is affected by MDS, when VM entry
to avoid any information leakage to guest thru above buffers.
3) Mitigation is not needed if ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO bit (bit5)
is set in IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR (10AH), in this case,
current processor is no affected by MDS vulnerability, in other
cases mitigation for MDS is required.
2. Methods to clear CPU buffers (microcode update is required):
1) L1D cache flush
2) VERW instruction
Either of above operations will trigger clearing all
CPU internal buffers if this CPU is affected by MDS.
Above mechnism is enumerated by:
CPUID.(EAX=7H, ECX=0):EDX[MD_CLEAR=10].
3. Mitigation details on ACRN:
if (processor is affected by MDS)
if (processor is not affected by L1TF OR
L1D flush is not launched on VM Entry)
execute VERW instruction when VM entry.
endif
endif
4. Referrence:
Deep Dive: Intel Analysis of Microarchitectural Data Sampling
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/
deep-dive-intel-analysis-microarchitectural-data-sampling
Deep Dive: CPUID Enumeration and Architectural MSRs
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/
deep-dive-cpuid-enumeration-and-architectural-msrs
Tracked-On: #3317
Signed-off-by: Yonghua Huang <yonghua.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Xu <anthony.xu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason CJ Chen <jason.cj.chen@intel.com>
ACRN Hypervisor ############### The open source `Project ACRN`_ defines a device hypervisor reference stack and an architecture for running multiple software subsystems, managed securely, on a consolidated system by means of a virtual machine manager. It also defines a reference framework implementation for virtual device emulation, called the "ACRN Device Model". The ACRN Hypervisor is a Type 1 reference hypervisor stack, running directly on the bare-metal hardware, and is suitable for a variety of IoT and embedded device solutions. The ACRN hypervisor addresses the gap that currently exists between datacenter hypervisors, and hard partitioning hypervisors. The ACRN hypervisor architecture partitions the system into different functional domains, with carefully selected guest OS sharing optimizations for IoT and embedded devices. You can find out more about Project ACRN on the `Project ACRN documentation`_ website. .. _`Project ACRN`: https://projectacrn.org .. _`ACRN Hypervisor`: https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor .. _`Project ACRN documentation`: https://projectacrn.github.io/