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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:45:28 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 218662] bhyve exposes CPU feature SDBG to guests, causing guest panic on OpenBSD 6.1
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Brandon Bergren <freebsd@bdragon.rtk0.net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Brandon Bergren <freebsd@bdragon.rtk0.net> ---
Created attachment 187571
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VMM patch (from HardenedBSD)

This affects me too.

HardenedBSD has the most elegant fix at
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/commit/e76fcb77ba82649bc6aed808a=
f06d6d2184847d8
-- I have attached a copy of the patch. I can confirm that with just that p=
atch
I can successfully run OpenBSD 6.1 in bhyve on my machine that is otherwise
affected by this problem.

I believe it makes a lot more sense than emulating the MSR (i.e. what
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/commit/cc91b57f4d1dabddfbf8b1e76=
55
does.)

My SuperMicro C7Z170-OCE board actually has bios options for enabling and
disabling the silicon debug status and lock bit, so if I were to misconfigu=
re
my bios, the countermeasure would have actually been effective (when applie=
d to
the host).

I can verify though that with it disabled in the bios, it is indeed locked
down, without needing the countermeasure.
root@narwhal:~ # kldload cpuctl
root@narwhal:~ # cpucontrol -m 0xc80 /dev/cpuctl0
MSR 0xc80: 0x00000000 0x40000000

I still think the countermeasure is a good idea though!
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/commit/da28546280938e19e866d2e11=
a9ccda3c4ca82fa
is a version of the countermeasure that checks the virtualization flag too =
so
it will avoid tickling the bhyve limitation while still providing protectio=
n.

But at the very least, filter the SDBG feature flag.

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