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KVM: VMX: hide flexpriority from guest when disabled at the module level
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As of commit 8d860bb ("kvm: vmx: Basic APIC virtualization controls
have three settings"), KVM will disable VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES when
a nested guest writes APIC_BASE MSR and kvm-intel.flexpriority=0,
whereas previously KVM would allow a nested guest to enable
VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES so long as it's supported in hardware.  That is,
KVM now advertises VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES to a guest but doesn't
(always) allow setting it when kvm-intel.flexpriority=0, and may even
initially allow the control and then clear it when the nested guest
writes APIC_BASE MSR, which is decidedly odd even if it doesn't cause
functional issues.

Hide the control completely when the module parameter is cleared.

reported-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Fixes: 8d860bb ("kvm: vmx: Basic APIC virtualization controls have three settings")
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Paolo Bonzini committed Oct 4, 2018
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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Expand Up @@ -3589,12 +3589,12 @@ static void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, bool apicv)
msrs->secondary_ctls_high);
msrs->secondary_ctls_low = 0;
msrs->secondary_ctls_high &=
SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES |
SECONDARY_EXEC_DESC |
SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_X2APIC_MODE |
SECONDARY_EXEC_APIC_REGISTER_VIRT |
SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUAL_INTR_DELIVERY |
SECONDARY_EXEC_WBINVD_EXITING;

/*
* We can emulate "VMCS shadowing," even if the hardware
* doesn't support it.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3651,6 +3651,10 @@ static void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, bool apicv)
msrs->secondary_ctls_high |=
SECONDARY_EXEC_UNRESTRICTED_GUEST;

if (flexpriority_enabled)
msrs->secondary_ctls_high |=
SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES;

/* miscellaneous data */
rdmsr(MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC,
msrs->misc_low,
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