It's free for host applications, such as QEMU, to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS in VMCS, even though MPX is disabled in guest cpuid. Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index fb0471268a14..b4cfdcfdc1c1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -3196,7 +3196,8 @@ static int vmx_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) msr_info->data = vmcs_readl(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP); break; case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS: - if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu)) + if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || + (!msr_info->host_initiated && !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu))) return 1; msr_info->data = vmcs_read64(GUEST_BNDCFGS); break; @@ -3278,7 +3279,8 @@ static int vmx_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) vmcs_writel(GUEST_SYSENTER_ESP, data); break; case MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS: - if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu)) + if (!kvm_mpx_supported() || + (!msr_info->host_initiated && !guest_cpuid_has_mpx(vcpu))) return 1; if (is_noncanonical_address(data & PAGE_MASK) || (data & MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS_RSVD)) -- 2.11.0
