KVM: x86: handle missing MPX in nested virtualization

When doing nested virtualization, we may be able to read BNDCFGS but
still not be allowed to write to GUEST_BNDCFGS in the VMCS.  Guard
writes to the field with vmx_mpx_supported(), and similarly hide the
MSR from userspace if the processor does not support the field.

We could work around this with the generic MSR save/load machinery,
but there is only a limited number of MSR save/load slots and it is
not really worthwhile to waste one for a scenario that should not
happen except in the nested virtualization case.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-05 23:19:52 +01:00
parent 36be0b9deb
commit 93c4adc7af
4 changed files with 30 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -729,6 +729,7 @@ static unsigned long nested_ept_get_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
static u64 construct_eptp(unsigned long root_hpa);
static void kvm_cpu_vmxon(u64 addr);
static void kvm_cpu_vmxoff(void);
static bool vmx_mpx_supported(void);
static int vmx_set_tss_addr(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int addr);
static void vmx_set_segment(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
struct kvm_segment *var, int seg);
@@ -2501,6 +2502,8 @@ static int vmx_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr_index, u64 *pdata)
data = vmcs_readl(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP);
break;
case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS:
if (!vmx_mpx_supported())
return 1;
data = vmcs_read64(GUEST_BNDCFGS);
break;
case MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL:
@@ -2572,6 +2575,8 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
vmcs_writel(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP, data);
break;
case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS:
if (!vmx_mpx_supported())
return 1;
vmcs_write64(GUEST_BNDCFGS, data);
break;
case MSR_IA32_TSC: