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From: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com, seanjc@google.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chao.gao@intel.com,
	chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 17/21] KVM: x86: Guard valid XCR0.APX settings
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 01:14:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260512011502.53072-18-chang.seok.bae@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260512011502.53072-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com>

Prevent invalid XCR0.APX configurations in two cases: conflict with MPX
and lack of SVM support.

In the non-compacted XSAVE format, APX and MPX conflict on the same
offset. Although MPX is being deprecated in practice, KVM should
explicitly reject such configurations that set both bits.

At this point, only VMX supports EGPRs. SVM will require corresponding
extensions to handle EGPR indices.

Updating the supported XCR0 mask will be done separately with CPUID
exposure.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ab3f4937-38f5-4354-8850-bf773c159bbe@redhat.com
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 7 ++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c     | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index b78dd8805ebb..85d4087ea927 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -5573,8 +5573,13 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * APX introduces EGPRs, which require additional VMCB support.
+	 * Disable APX until the necessary extensions are handled.
+	 */
 	kvm_caps.supported_xcr0 &= ~(XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS |
-				     XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR);
+				     XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR  |
+				     XFEATURE_MASK_APX);
 
 	if (tsc_scaling) {
 		if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSCRATEMSR)) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3f029f9272a2..f5f27e7b00b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -1291,6 +1291,10 @@ int __kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u64 xcr)
 	    (!(xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR)))
 		return 1;
 
+	/* MPX and APX conflict in the non-compacted XSAVE format */
+	if (xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS && xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_APX)
+		return 1;
+
 	if (xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_AVX512) {
 		if (!(xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_YMM))
 			return 1;
-- 
2.51.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-12  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-12  1:14 [PATCH v4 00/21] KVM: x86: Enable APX for guests Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] KVM: VMX: Macrofy GPR swapping in __vmx_vcpu_run() Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] KVM: SVM: Macrofy GPR swapping in __svm_vcpu_run() Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] KVM: SEV: Macrofy GPR swapping in __svm_sev_es_vcpu_run() Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] KVM: x86: Extend VCPU registers for EGPRs Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 05/21] KVM: VMX: Save guest EGPRs in VCPU cache Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] x86/fpu: Ignore APX when copying from/to guest FPU Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 07/21] KVM: x86: Support APX state for XSAVE ABI Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] KVM: VMX: Refactor VMX instruction information access Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] KVM: VMX: Refactor instruction information decoding Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] KVM: VMX: Refactor register index retrieval from exit qualification Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] KVM: VMX: Support instruction information extension Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] KVM: nVMX: Propagate the extended instruction info field Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] KVM: x86: Support EGPR accessing and tracking for emulator Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] KVM: x86: Handle EGPR index and REX2-incompatible opcodes Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] KVM: x86: Support REX2-prefixed opcode decode Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] KVM: x86: Reject EVEX-prefixed instructions Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:14 ` Chang S. Bae [this message]
2026-05-12  1:14 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] KVM: x86: Expose APX foundation feature to guests Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] KVM: x86: Expose APX sub-features " Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] KVM: x86: selftests: Add APX state and ABI test Chang S. Bae
2026-05-12  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] KVM: x86: selftests: Add APX state handling and XCR0 sanity checks Chang S. Bae

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