The ability to write to MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES from the host should not depend on guest visible CPUID entries, even if just to allow creating/restoring guest MSRs and CPUIDs in any sequence. Fixes: 27461da31089 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Support full width counting") Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 0cf1082455df..9a2972fdae82 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info) if (!msr_info->host_initiated) return 1; - if (guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_PDCM) && kvm_get_msr_feature(&msr_ent)) + if (kvm_get_msr_feature(&msr_ent)) return 1; if (data & ~msr_ent.data) return 1; -- 2.33.1