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* [PATCH 0/2] Fix breakage from adding MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL
@ 2020-05-20 16:07 Maxim Levitsky
  2020-05-20 16:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kvm: cosmetic: remove wrong braces in kvm_init_msr_list switch Maxim Levitsky
  2020-05-20 16:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: don't expose MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL unconditionally Maxim Levitsky
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Levitsky @ 2020-05-20 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm; +Cc: linux-kernel, Maxim Levitsky

Currently code in kvm_get_supported_msrs always
returns this msr as supported by KVM, however it
is not supported at all on AMD and it is only supported
on few select Intel systems.

This happened to work in native virtualization case,
because KVM's code also tries to read these msrs,
and on an exception drops them from the supported msr list.

However when running nested, and outer hypervisor set
to ignore unknown msrs, the read from this msr doesn't get
an excption, and thus KVM thinks that this msr should be on
supported msr list.

I don't think we should rely on exception to check if a feature
is supported since that msr can be even in theory assigned to something
else on AMD for example.

Also I included a cosmetic fix for an issue I found in the same function.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Maxim Levitsky (2):
  kvm: cosmetic: remove wrong braces in kvm_init_msr_list switch
  kvm/x86: don't expose MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL unconditionally

 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.26.2



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2020-05-20 16:07 [PATCH 0/2] Fix breakage from adding MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-20 16:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kvm: cosmetic: remove wrong braces in kvm_init_msr_list switch Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-20 16:23   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-20 16:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: don't expose MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL unconditionally Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-20 16:33   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-20 16:56     ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-20 17:15       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-20 17:39         ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-21  8:03       ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-05-20 21:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-20 21:09     ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-21  4:33     ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-05-21  5:28       ` Tao Xu
2020-05-21  6:37         ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-05-21  6:44           ` Tao Xu
2020-05-21  8:40             ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-30 13:41               ` Maxim Levitsky
2020-05-21  8:24       ` Paolo Bonzini

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