KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL

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commit ecb586bd29 upstream.

Having a paravirt indirect call in the IBRS restore path is not a
good idea, since we are trying to protect from speculative execution
of bogus indirect branch targets.  It is also slower, so use
native_wrmsrl() on the vmentry path too.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d28b387fb7
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222154318.20361-2-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Paolo Bonzini 2018-02-22 16:43:17 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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