According to section "Checking and Loading Guest State" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following check is performed on vmentry: If the "load IA32_PAT" VM-entry control is 1, the value of the field for the IA32_PAT MSR must be one that could be written by WRMSR without fault at CPL 0. Specifically, each of the 8 bytes in the field must have one of the values 0 (UC), 1 (WC), 4 (WT), 5 (WP), 6 (WB), or 7 (UC-). Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index f601b156ca84..b8bd449350b4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -2686,6 +2686,10 @@ static int nested_vmx_check_vmentry_postreqs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, !nested_guest_cr4_valid(vcpu, vmcs12->guest_cr4)) return 1; + if ((vmcs12->vm_entry_controls & VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_PAT) && + !kvm_mtrr_valid(vcpu, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, vmcs12->guest_ia32_pat)) + return 1; + if (nested_vmx_check_vmcs_link_ptr(vcpu, vmcs12)) { *exit_qual = ENTRY_FAIL_VMCS_LINK_PTR; return 1; -- 2.17.2