I was investigating an issue with seabios >= 1.10 which stopped working for nested KVM on Hyper-V. The problem appears to be in handle_ept_violation() function: when we do fast mmio we need to skip the instruction so we do kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(). This, however, depends on VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN field being set correctly in VMCS. However, this is not the case. Intel's manual doesn't mandate VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN to be set when EPT MISCONFIG occurs. While on real hardware it was observed to be set, some hypervisors follow the spec and don't set it; we end up advancing IP with some random value. I checked with Microsoft and they confirmed they don't fill VM_EXIT_INSTRUCTION_LEN on EPT MISCONFIG. Fix the issue by doing instruction skip through emulator when running nested. Fixes: 68c3b4d1676d870f0453c31d5a52e7e65c7448ae Suggested-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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