On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 04:38:27PM +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > One last idea, can we keep the MSR filtering as is and add the hack in > > vmx_restore_control_msr()? That way the (userspace) host and guest see > > the same values when reading the affected MSRs, and eVMCS wouldn't need > > it's own hook to do consistency checks. > > Yes but (if I'm not mistaken) we'll have then to keep the filtering we > currently do in nested_enable_evmcs(): if userspace doesn't do > KVM_SET_MSR for VMX MSRs (QEMU<4.2) then the filtering in > vmx_restore_control_msr() won't happen and the guest will see the > unfiltered set of controls... Ya, my thought was to add this on top of the nested_enable_evmcs() code.