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Status: New => Incomplete
** Tags added: trusty
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Title:
nested virtualization w/first level trusty guests has odd MDS behavior
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
When nested kvm virtualization is used (with host-passthrough), if the
first level guest is a trusty vm, odd behavior is seen in the second
level guest:
host os:
disco/5.0.0-15.16-generic/qemu 1:3.1+dfsg-2ubuntu3.1
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
1st level vm:
trusty/4.4.0-148.174~14.04.1-generic/qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.46
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
2nd level vm:
bionic/4.15.0-50.54-generic
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Not affected
This behavior is not seen when the first level guest is a xenial or
bionic vm (same bare metal hardware):
1st level vm:
bionic/4.15.0-50.54-generic/qemu 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu7.13
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
2nd level vm:
bionic/4.15.0-50.54-generic
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
and:
1st level vm:
xenial/4.4.0-148.174-generic/qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.39
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
2nd level vm:
bionic/4.15.0-50.54-generic
contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:
Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
It's not clear whether this is an issue with linux/kvm or qemu in
trusty.
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