While in principle it's possible to have a vendor virtualising another,
this is fairly tricky in practice and comes with the world's supply of
security issues.
Reject any CPU policy with vendors not matching the host's.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Vallejo <alejandro.garciavallejo@amd.com>
---
v2:
* Reversed polarity of leaf0 check in policy compatibility helper.
* Reworded changelog entry in terms of LM + save/restore.
---
CHANGELOG.md | 5 +++++
xen/lib/x86/policy.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 18f3d10f20..426c0bce67 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
- Xenoprofile support. Oprofile themselves removed support for Xen in 2014
prior to the version 1.0 release, and there has been no development since
before then in Xen.
+ - Domains can no longer run on a CPU vendor if they were initially launched
+ on a different CPU vendor. This affects live migrations and save/restore
+ workflows accross mixed-vendor hosts. Cross-vendor emulation has always
+ been unreliable, but since 2017 with the advent of speculation security it
+ became unsustainably so.
- Removed xenpm tool on non-x86 platforms as it doesn't actually provide
anything useful outside of x86.
diff --git a/xen/lib/x86/policy.c b/xen/lib/x86/policy.c
index f033d22785..079c42a29b 100644
--- a/xen/lib/x86/policy.c
+++ b/xen/lib/x86/policy.c
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ int x86_cpu_policies_are_compatible(const struct cpu_policy *host,
#define FAIL_MSR(m) \
do { e.msr = (m); goto out; } while ( 0 )
- if ( guest->basic.max_leaf > host->basic.max_leaf )
+ if ( (guest->x86_vendor != host->x86_vendor) ||
+ (guest->basic.max_leaf > host->basic.max_leaf) )
FAIL_CPUID(0, NA);
if ( guest->feat.max_subleaf > host->feat.max_subleaf )
--
2.43.0