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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index b6afa6b63c8f..12c06ea28f5c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -952,6 +952,16 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
int r;
unsigned int order = get_order(IOPM_SIZE);
+ /*
+ * NX is required for shadow paging and for NPT if the NX huge pages
+ * mitigation is enabled.
+ */
+ if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX)) {
+ pr_err_ratelimited("NX (Execute Disable) not supported\n");
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ }
+ kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_NX);
+
iopm_pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
if (!iopm_pages)
@@ -965,9 +975,6 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
supported_xcr0 &= ~(XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS | XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR);
- if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX))
- kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_NX);
-
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FXSR_OPT))
kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_FFXSR);