These two variables should check whether SPEC_CTRL and PRED_CMD are supposed to be passed through to L2 guests or not. While msr_write_intercepted_l01 would return 'true' if it is not passed through. So just invert the result of msr_write_intercepted_l01 to implement the correct semantics. Fixes: 086e7d4118cc ("KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL") Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index bee4c49..599179b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -10219,8 +10219,8 @@ static inline bool nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, * updated to reflect this when L1 (or its L2s) actually write to * the MSR. */ - bool pred_cmd = msr_write_intercepted_l01(vcpu, MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD); - bool spec_ctrl = msr_write_intercepted_l01(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); + bool pred_cmd = !msr_write_intercepted_l01(vcpu, MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD); + bool spec_ctrl = !msr_write_intercepted_l01(vcpu, MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL); if (!nested_cpu_has_virt_x2apic_mode(vmcs12) && !pred_cmd && !spec_ctrl) -- 2.7.4