[PATCH 6.1 079/109] KVM: SVM: Drop DEBUGCTL[5:2] from guests effective value

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6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit ee89e8013383d50a27ea9bf3c8a69eed6799856f upstream.

Drop bits 5:2 from the guest's effective DEBUGCTL value, as AMD changed
the architectural behavior of the bits and broke backwards compatibility.
On CPUs without BusLockTrap (or at least, in APMs from before ~2023),
bits 5:2 controlled the behavior of external pins:

  Performance-Monitoring/Breakpoint Pin-Control (PBi)—Bits 5:2, read/write.
  Software uses thesebits to control the type of information reported by
  the four external performance-monitoring/breakpoint pins on the
  processor. When a PBi bit is cleared to 0, the corresponding external pin
  (BPi) reports performance-monitor information. When a PBi bit is set to
  1, the corresponding external pin (BPi) reports breakpoint information.

With the introduction of BusLockTrap, presumably to be compatible with
Intel CPUs, AMD redefined bit 2 to be BLCKDB:

  Bus Lock #DB Trap (BLCKDB)—Bit 2, read/write. Software sets this bit to
  enable generation of a #DB trap following successful execution of a bus
  lock when CPL is > 0.

and redefined bits 5:3 (and bit 6) as "6:3 Reserved MBZ".

Ideally, KVM would treat bits 5:2 as reserved.  Defer that change to a
feature cleanup to avoid breaking existing guest in LTS kernels.  For now,
drop the bits to retain backwards compatibility (of a sort).

Note, dropping bits 5:2 is still a guest-visible change, e.g. if the guest
is enabling LBRs *and* the legacy PBi bits, then the state of the PBi bits
is visible to the guest, whereas now the guest will always see '0'.

Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227222411.3490595-2-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -3039,6 +3039,18 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *
 				    __func__, data);
 			break;
 		}
+
+		/*
+		 * AMD changed the architectural behavior of bits 5:2.  On CPUs
+		 * without BusLockTrap, bits 5:2 control "external pins", but
+		 * on CPUs that support BusLockDetect, bit 2 enables BusLockTrap
+		 * and bits 5:3 are reserved-to-zero.  Sadly, old KVM allowed
+		 * the guest to set bits 5:2 despite not actually virtualizing
+		 * Performance-Monitoring/Breakpoint external pins.  Drop bits
+		 * 5:2 for backwards compatibility.
+		 */
+		data &= ~GENMASK(5, 2);
+
 		if (data & DEBUGCTL_RESERVED_BITS)
 			return 1;
 
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static inline bool is_x2apic_msrpm_offse
 /* svm.c */
 #define MSR_INVALID				0xffffffffU
 
-#define DEBUGCTL_RESERVED_BITS (~(0x3fULL))
+#define DEBUGCTL_RESERVED_BITS (~(DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF | DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR))
 
 extern bool dump_invalid_vmcb;
 






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