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cpu: define the 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bit (CVE-2018-3639)

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Some AMD processors only support a non-architectural means of
enabling Speculative Store Bypass Disable. To allow simplified
handling in virtual environments, hypervisors will expose an
architectural definition through CPUID bit 0x80000008_EBX[25].
This needs to be exposed to guest OS running on AMD x86 hosts to
allow them to protect against CVE-2018-3639.

Note that since this CPUID bit won't be present in the host CPUID
results on physical hosts, it will not be enabled automatically
in guests configured with "host-model" CPU unless using QEMU
version >= 2.9.0. Thus for older versions of QEMU, this feature
must be manually enabled using policy=force. Guests using the
"host-passthrough" CPU mode do not need special handling.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
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Daniel P. Berrangé 2018-05-21 23:05:08 +01:00 committed by Jiri Denemark
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<feature name='ibpb'>
<cpuid eax_in='0x80000008' ebx='0x00001000'/>
</feature>
<feature name='virt-ssbd'>
<cpuid eax_in='0x80000008' ebx='0x02000000'/>
</feature>
<!-- models -->
<model name='486'>