[PATCH 3/3] KVM: SVM: add module param to control the #SMI interception

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In theory there are no side effects of not intercepting #SMI,
because then #SMI becomes transparent to the OS and the KVM.

Plus an observation on recent Zen2 CPUs reveals that these
CPUs ignore #SMI interception and never deliver #SMI VMexits.

This is also useful to test nested KVM to see that L1
handles #SMIs correctly in case when L1 doesn't intercept #SMI.

Finally the default remains the same, the SMI are intercepted
by default thus this patch doesn't have any effect unless
non default module param value is used.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c |  4 ++++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c    | 10 +++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h    |  1 +
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 21d03e3a5dfd..2884c54a72bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ void recalc_intercepts(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_INTERCEPT; i++)
 		c->intercepts[i] |= g->intercepts[i];
+
+	/* If SMI is not intercepted, ignore guest SMI intercept as well  */
+	if (!intercept_smi)
+		vmcb_clr_intercept(c, INTERCEPT_SMI);
 }
 
 static void copy_vmcb_control_area(struct vmcb_control_area *dst,
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index a3aad97fa427..9f95e77d5ce1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ module_param(avic, bool, 0444);
 bool __read_mostly dump_invalid_vmcb;
 module_param(dump_invalid_vmcb, bool, 0644);
 
+
+bool intercept_smi = true;
+module_param(intercept_smi, bool, 0444);
+
+
 static bool svm_gp_erratum_intercept = true;
 
 static u8 rsm_ins_bytes[] = "\x0f\xaa";
@@ -1206,7 +1211,10 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_INTR);
 	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_NMI);
-	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_SMI);
+
+	if (intercept_smi)
+		svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_SMI);
+
 	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_SELECTIVE_CR0);
 	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_RDPMC);
 	svm_set_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_CPUID);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index f89b623bb591..8cb3bd59c5ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #define MSRPM_OFFSETS	16
 extern u32 msrpm_offsets[MSRPM_OFFSETS] __read_mostly;
 extern bool npt_enabled;
+extern bool intercept_smi;
 
 /*
  * Clean bits in VMCB.
-- 
2.26.3




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