xen: prevent a 64 bit guest setting reserved bits in DR7 The upper 32 bits of this register are reserved and should be written as zero. This is XSA-12 / CVE-2012-3494 Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Reviewed-by: Ian Campbell diff -r 353bc0801b11 xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h Mon Aug 06 12:28:03 2012 +0100 +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/debugreg.h Wed Aug 15 12:00:21 2012 +0100 @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ We can slow the instruction pipeline for instructions coming via the gdt or the ldt if we want to. I am not sure why this is an advantage */ -#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ZERO (0x0000d800ul) /* Reserved, read as zero */ +#define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ZERO (~0xffff27fful) /* Reserved, read as zero */ #define DR_CONTROL_RESERVED_ONE (0x00000400ul) /* Reserved, read as one */ #define DR_LOCAL_EXACT_ENABLE (0x00000100ul) /* Local exact enable */ #define DR_GLOBAL_EXACT_ENABLE (0x00000200ul) /* Global exact enable */