[PATCH v15 05/41] KVM: x86: Report XSS as to-be-saved if there are supported features

Sean Christopherson
2025-09-12T23:23:34Z

Add MSR_IA32_XSS to list of MSRs reported to userspace if supported_xss
is non-zero, i.e. KVM supports at least one XSS based feature.

Before enabling CET virtualization series, guest IA32_MSR_XSS is
guaranteed to be 0, i.e., XSAVES/XRSTORS is executed in non-root mode
with XSS == 0, which equals to the effect of XSAVE/XRSTOR.

Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 771b7c883c66..3b4258b38ad8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static const u32 msrs_to_save_base[] = {
MSR_IA32_RTIT_ADDR3_A, MSR_IA32_RTIT_ADDR3_B,
MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL,

- MSR_IA32_XFD, MSR_IA32_XFD_ERR,
+ MSR_IA32_XFD, MSR_IA32_XFD_ERR, MSR_IA32_XSS,
};

static const u32 msrs_to_save_pmu[] = {
@@ -7499,6 +7499,10 @@ static void kvm_probe_msr_to_save(u32 msr_index)
if (!(kvm_get_arch_capabilities() & ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR))
return;
break;
+ case MSR_IA32_XSS:
+ if (!kvm_caps.supported_xss)
+ return;
+ break;
default:
break;
}
--
2.51.0.384.g4c02a37b29-goog