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kvm: vmx: Do not disable intercepts for BNDCFGS

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The MSR permission bitmaps are shared by all VMs. However, some VMs
may not be configured to support MPX, even when the host does. If the
host supports VMX and the guest does not, we should intercept accesses
to the BNDCFGS MSR, so that we can synthesize a #GP
fault. Furthermore, if the host does not support MPX and the
"ignore_msrs" kvm kernel parameter is set, then we should intercept
accesses to the BNDCFGS MSR, so that we can skip over the rdmsr/wrmsr
without raising a #GP fault.

Fixes: da8999d31818fdc8 ("KVM: x86: Intel MPX vmx and msr handle")
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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Jim Mattson 2017-05-23 11:52:52 -07:00 committed by Radim Krčmář
parent 9d643f6312
commit a8b6fda38f
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@ -6547,7 +6547,6 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void)
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, false);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, false);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, false);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS, true);
memcpy(vmx_msr_bitmap_legacy_x2apic_apicv,
vmx_msr_bitmap_legacy, PAGE_SIZE);