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KVM nVMX: MSRs should not be stored if VM-entry fails during or after…
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… loading guest state

According to section "VM-entry Failures During or After Loading Guest State"
in Intel SDM vol 3C,

	"No MSRs are saved into the VM-exit MSR-store area."

when bit 31 of the exit reason is set.

Reported-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Krish Sadhukhan authored and Paolo Bonzini committed Dec 14, 2018
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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
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Expand Up @@ -3504,6 +3504,18 @@ static void prepare_vmcs12(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12,
* L2 to IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD.
*/
vmcs12_save_pending_event(vcpu, vmcs12);

/*
* According to spec, there's no need to store the guest's
* MSRs if the exit is due to a VM-entry failure that occurs
* during or after loading the guest state. Since this exit
* does not fall in that category, we need to save the MSRs.
*/
if (nested_vmx_store_msr(vcpu,
vmcs12->vm_exit_msr_store_addr,
vmcs12->vm_exit_msr_store_count))
nested_vmx_abort(vcpu,
VMX_ABORT_SAVE_GUEST_MSR_FAIL);
}

/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3835,10 +3847,6 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 exit_reason,
* immutable.
*/
nested_flush_cached_shadow_vmcs12(vcpu, vmcs12);

if (nested_vmx_store_msr(vcpu, vmcs12->vm_exit_msr_store_addr,
vmcs12->vm_exit_msr_store_count))
nested_vmx_abort(vcpu, VMX_ABORT_SAVE_GUEST_MSR_FAIL);
} else {
/*
* The only expected VM-instruction error is "VM entry with
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