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authorSean Christopherson <[email protected]>2024-12-11 09:29:52 -0800
committerSean Christopherson <[email protected]>2024-12-19 17:47:52 -0800
commit4d5163cba43fe96902165606fa54e1aecbbb32de (patch)
treebabf5556b552ca0635ef27a61127c4e1a830d127
parent9b42d1e8e4fe9dc631162c04caa69b0d1860b0f0 (diff)
KVM: SVM: Allow guest writes to set MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG bits
Drop KVM's arbitrary behavior of making DE_CFG.LFENCE_SERIALIZE read-only for the guest, as rejecting writes can lead to guest crashes, e.g. Windows in particular doesn't gracefully handle unexpected #GPs on the WRMSR, and nothing in the AMD manuals suggests that LFENCE_SERIALIZE is read-only _if it exists_. KVM only allows LFENCE_SERIALIZE to be set, by the guest or host, if the underlying CPU has X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC, i.e. if LFENCE is guaranteed to be serializing. So if the guest sets LFENCE_SERIALIZE, KVM will provide the desired/correct behavior without any additional action (the guest's value is never stuffed into hardware). And having LFENCE be serializing even when it's not _required_ to be is a-ok from a functional perspective. Fixes: 74a0e79df68a ("KVM: SVM: Disallow guest from changing userspace's MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG value") Fixes: d1d93fa90f1a ("KVM: SVM: Add MSR-based feature support for serializing LFENCE") Reported-by: Simon Pilkington <[email protected]> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected] Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index dd15cc635655..21dacd312779 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -3201,15 +3201,6 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr)
if (data & ~supported_de_cfg)
return 1;
- /*
- * Don't let the guest change the host-programmed value. The
- * MSR is very model specific, i.e. contains multiple bits that
- * are completely unknown to KVM, and the one bit known to KVM
- * is simply a reflection of hardware capabilities.
- */
- if (!msr->host_initiated && data != svm->msr_decfg)
- return 1;
-
svm->msr_decfg = data;
break;
}