Commit a943ac50 authored May 29, 2018 by Jim Mattson Committed by Paolo Bonzini Jun 04, 2018

kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes



Disallow changes to the VMX capability MSRs while the vCPU is in VMX
operation. Although this does break the existing API, it helps to
avoid some potentially tricky situations for which there is no
architected behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent c5ce8235

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

+7 −0

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		@@ -3538,6 +3538,13 @@ static int vmx_set_vmx_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 data)
		{
		struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);

		/*
		* Don't allow changes to the VMX capability MSRs while the vCPU
		* is in VMX operation.
		*/
		if (vmx->nested.vmxon)
		return -EBUSY;

		switch (msr_index) {
		case MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC:
		return vmx_restore_vmx_basic(vmx, data);

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