Commit 66a329be authored by Vitaly Kuznetsov's avatar Vitaly Kuznetsov Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: nVMX: Always set required-1 bits of pinbased_ctls to PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR

Similar to exit_ctls_low, entry_ctls_low, and procbased_ctls_low,
pinbased_ctls_low should be set to PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR
and not host's MSR_IA32_VMX_PINBASED_CTLS value |=
PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR.

The commit eabeaacc ("KVM: nVMX: Clean up and fix pin-based
execution controls") which introduced '|=' doesn't mention anything
about why this is needed, the change seems rather accidental.

Note: normally, required-1 portion of MSR_IA32_VMX_PINBASED_CTLS should
be equal to PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR so no behavioral change
is expected, however, it is (in theory) possible to observe something
different there when e.g. KVM is running as a nested hypervisor. Hope
this doesn't happen in practice.
Reported-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830133737.1539624-31-vkuznets@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 9d78d6fb
......@@ -6589,7 +6589,7 @@ void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps)
rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_PINBASED_CTLS,
msrs->pinbased_ctls_low,
msrs->pinbased_ctls_high);
msrs->pinbased_ctls_low |=
msrs->pinbased_ctls_low =
PIN_BASED_ALWAYSON_WITHOUT_TRUE_MSR;
msrs->pinbased_ctls_high &=
PIN_BASED_EXT_INTR_MASK |
......
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