Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: x86: nVMX: VMCS12 field's read/write respects field existence bitmap

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On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 01:19 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, Yu Zhang wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 10:33:43PM +0000, Sean Christopherson
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2021, Robert Hoo wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 12:53 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 5:05 PM Robert Hoo <
> > > > > robert.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 16:49 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > > > > > > We have some internal patches for virtualizing VMCS
> > > > > > > shadowing
> > > > > > > which
> > > > > > > may break if there is a guest VMCS field with index
> > > > > > > greater than
> > > > > > > VMX_VMCS_ENUM.MAX_INDEX. I plan to upstream them soon.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > OK, thanks for letting us know.:-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > After careful consideration, we're actually going to drop
> > > > > these
> > > > > patches rather than sending them upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > OK.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi, Paolo, Sean and Jim,
> > > > 
> > > > Do you think our this series patch are still needed or can be
> > > > dropped
> > > > as well?
> > > 
> > > IMO we should drop this series and take our own erratum.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Sean.
> > 
> > Do we need a patch in kvm-unit-test to depricate the check against
> > the max index from MSR_IA32_VMX_VMCS_ENUM?
> 
> Hmm, yes, unless there's an easy way to tell QEMU to not override the
> VMX MSRs.
> I don't see any point in fighting too hard with QEMU.

OK. I just sent out the kvm-unit-tests patch. Copied from last mail
from Yu.
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/1637306107-92967-1-git-send-email-robert.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u




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