From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] KVM: x86: Disallow EFER.LME and EFER.LMA if long mode is not supported
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:10:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260713181020.2735367-3-yosry@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260713181020.2735367-1-yosry@kernel.org>
Remove EFER.LME and EFER.LMA from EFER reserved bits only if long mode
is actually supported. KVM does check long-mode support before allowing
the bits for guest writes and userspace writes through KVM_SET_SREGS*
(in __kvm_valid_efer()), but userspace writes through KVM_SET_MSRS only
check reserved bits.
In practice, this doesn't really matter. The true motiviation is getting
rid of the #ifdeffery when initializing efer_reserved_bits.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c | 10 +---------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c b/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
index c230b18d87e38..67481429ad6b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/msrs.c
@@ -19,16 +19,8 @@ bool __read_mostly report_ignored_msrs = true;
module_param(report_ignored_msrs, bool, 0644);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(report_ignored_msrs);
-/* EFER defaults:
- * - enable syscall per default because its emulated by KVM
- * - enable LME and LMA per default on 64 bit KVM
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-static
-u64 __read_mostly efer_reserved_bits = ~((u64)(EFER_SCE | EFER_LME | EFER_LMA));
-#else
+/* Enable syscall by default because its emulated by KVM */
static u64 __read_mostly efer_reserved_bits = ~((u64)EFER_SCE);
-#endif
#define MAX_IO_MSRS 256
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index ca01a2f2ec466..f68424a985cda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -6913,6 +6913,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(kvm_setup_xss_caps);
static void kvm_setup_efer_caps(void)
{
+ if (kvm_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_LM))
+ kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_LME | EFER_LMA);
+
if (kvm_cpu_cap_has(X86_FEATURE_NX))
kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_NX);
--
2.55.0.141.g00534a21ce-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-13 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-13 18:10 [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: x86: Fix EFER reserved bits initialization Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-13 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] KVM: x86: Move enabling EFER.SVME and EFER.LMSLE to generic EFER setup Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-13 18:10 ` Yosry Ahmed [this message]
2026-07-13 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] KVM: x86: Always initialize EFER reserved bits on vendor initialization Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-13 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] KVM: x86: Reverse the polarity of efer_reserved_bits Yosry Ahmed
2026-07-13 18:10 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: x86: Move supported EFER bits to kvm_caps Yosry Ahmed
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