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From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"seanjc@google.com" <seanjc@google.com>,
	"vkuznets@redhat.com" <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: Reject nested CAP enablement if nested virtualization is disabled
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:46:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d8588f8fb1b68fee59d4a0c8cfcfd7a58d25f79.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260630202828.440724-2-seanjc@google.com>


> but now KVM is over-reporting support for
> KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE and KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS.
> 
> 
[...]

> @@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
>  			r &= ~KVM_X2APIC_ENABLE_SUPPRESS_EOI_BROADCAST;
>  		break;
>  	case KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE:
> -		r = kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->get_state ?
> +		r = kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->enabled ?
>  			kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->get_state(NULL, NULL, 0) : 0;
>  		break;

[...]

>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV
> @@ -2354,7 +2354,8 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
>  		r = kvm_x86_ops.enable_l2_tlb_flush != NULL;
>  		break;
>  	case KVM_CAP_HYPERV_ENLIGHTENED_VMCS:
> -		r = kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->enable_evmcs != NULL;
> +		r = kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->enabled &&
> +		    kvm_x86_ops.nested_ops->enable_evmcs != NULL;
> 

IMHO an additional 'enabled' seems a bit redundant?  And it seems there's no
rule whether the common x86 code should check it before (checking and) making
the call or not.

How about letting VMX/SVM code to explicitly clear the function pointer in
xx_hardware_setup()?

Perhaps as an ultimate goal, I am not sure whether VMX/SVM should provide a all-
NULL version of kvm_x86_nested_ops and the kvm_nested_ops_update() should treat
all as either OPTIONAL or OPTIONAL_RET0.  There will be still call sites which
needs to check the pointer is NULL or not and return -EXXX but I guess we can
live with that (kvm_x86_ops is similar too anyway) ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-14  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-30 20:28 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: Convert nested ops to static calls Sean Christopherson
2026-06-30 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: Reject nested CAP enablement if nested virtualization is disabled Sean Christopherson
2026-07-10 12:56   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2026-07-14  3:46   ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2026-07-14 18:24     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-07-14 22:21       ` Huang, Kai
2026-06-30 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: Add static calls for nested virtualization ops Sean Christopherson
2026-06-30 20:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: x86: Move nested_ops out of kvm_x86_ops, to global kvm_nested_ops Sean Christopherson
2026-07-14 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: Convert nested ops to static calls Sean Christopherson
2026-07-14 22:43   ` Huang, Kai

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