KVM: VMX: Refuse to load kvm_intel if EPT and NX are disabled
Refuse to load KVM if NX support is not available and EPT is not enabled. Shadow paging has assumed NX support since commit 9167ab79 ("KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active"), so for all intents and purposes this has been a de facto requirement for over a year. Do not require NX support if EPT is enabled purely because Intel CPUs let firmware disable NX support via MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLES. If not for that, VMX (and KVM as a whole) could require NX support with minimal risk to breaking userspace. Fixes: 9167ab79 ("KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Message-Id: <20210615164535.2146172-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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