KVM: x86: Allow userspace to opt out of hypercall patching
KVM handles the VMCALL/VMMCALL instructions very strangely. Even though both of these instructions really should #UD when executed on the wrong vendor's hardware (i.e. VMCALL on SVM, VMMCALL on VMX), KVM replaces the guest's instruction with the appropriate instruction for the vendor. Nonetheless, older guest kernels without commit c1118b36 ("x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only") do not patch in the appropriate instruction using alternatives, likely motivating KVM's intervention. Add a quirk allowing userspace to opt out of hypercall patching. If the quirk is disabled, KVM synthesizes a #UD in the guest. Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> Message-Id: <20220316005538.2282772-2-oupton@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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