On 08/04/19 23:35, Krish Sadhukhan wrote: > According to section "Checks on Host Control Registers and MSRs" in Intel > SDM vol 3C, the following check is performed on vmentry: > > If the "load IA32_PAT" VM-exit 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> > 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 3170e291215d..25aa4c4cf42a 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 ((vmcs12->vm_exit_controls & VM_EXIT_LOAD_IA32_PAT) && > + !kvm_mtrr_valid(vcpu, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, vmcs12->host_ia32_pat)) > + 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, > I've sent a patch to optimize the check using bitwise operations. Apart from that, looks good. Paolo