According to section "Canonicalization and Consistency Checks" in APM vol. 2 the following guest state is illegal: "DR6[63:32] are not zero." "DR7[63:32] are not zero." "Any MBZ bit of EFER is set." Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c index 9a2a62e..2fec51d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c @@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ static bool nested_vmcb_checks(struct vmcb *vmcb) if ((vmcb->save.efer & EFER_SVME) == 0) return false; + if (!kvm_dr6_valid(vmcb->save.dr6) || !kvm_dr7_valid(vmcb->save.dr7)) + return false; + if ((vmcb->control.intercept & (1ULL << INTERCEPT_VMRUN)) == 0) return false; -- 1.8.3.1