According to section "Checks on VMX Controls" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following check is performed on vmentry of L2 guests: On processors that support Intel 64 architecture, the IA32_SYSENTER_ESP field and the IA32_SYSENTER_EIP field must each contain a canonical address. Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 7bb5e565f3fa..47c28422903c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -2595,6 +2595,11 @@ static int nested_check_host_control_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, !nested_host_cr4_valid(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr4) || !nested_cr3_valid(vcpu, vmcs12->host_cr3)) return -EINVAL; + + if (is_noncanonical_address(vmcs12->host_ia32_sysenter_esp, vcpu) || + is_noncanonical_address(vmcs12->host_ia32_sysenter_eip, vcpu)) + return -EINVAL; + /* * If the load IA32_EFER VM-exit control is 1, bits reserved in the * IA32_EFER MSR must be 0 in the field for that register. In addition, -- 2.17.2