If the host has protection keys disabled, we cannot read and write the guest PKRU---RDPKRU and WRPKRU fail with #GP(0) if CR4.PKE=0. Block the PKU cpuid bit in that case. This ensures that guest_CR4.PKE=1 implies host_CR4.PKE=1. Fixes: 1be0e61c1f255faaeab04a390e00c8b9b9042870 Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c index 59ca2eea522c..19adbb418443 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function, entry->ecx &= kvm_cpuid_7_0_ecx_x86_features; cpuid_mask(&entry->ecx, CPUID_7_ECX); /* PKU is not yet implemented for shadow paging. */ - if (!tdp_enabled) + if (!tdp_enabled || !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSPKE)) entry->ecx &= ~F(PKU); entry->edx &= kvm_cpuid_7_0_edx_x86_features; entry->edx &= get_scattered_cpuid_leaf(7, 0, CPUID_EDX); -- 1.8.3.1
