Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] x86/kvm/hyper-v: move VMX controls sanitization out of nested_enable_evmcs()

Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-27T17:53:49Z

On 27/01/20 16:38, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>>> If there are no objections and if we still think it would be beneficial
>>> to minimize the list of controls we filter out (and not go with the full
>>> set like my RFC suggests), I'll prepare v2. (v1, actually, this was RFC).
>> One last idea, can we keep the MSR filtering as is and add the hack in
>> vmx_restore_control_msr()? That way the (userspace) host and guest see
>> the same values when reading the affected MSRs, and eVMCS wouldn't need
>> it's own hook to do consistency checks.
> Yes but (if I'm not mistaken) we'll have then to keep the filtering we
> currently do in nested_enable_evmcs(): if userspace doesn't do
> KVM_SET_MSR for VMX MSRs (QEMU<4.2) then the filtering in
> vmx_restore_control_msr() won't happen and the guest will see the
> unfiltered set of controls...
>

Indeed. The place you used in the RFC is the best we can do, I am afraid.

Paolo