[PATCH v2 35/50] KVM: VMX: Use current CPU's info to perform "disabled by BIOS?" checks

Huang, Kai kai.huang at intel.com
Fri Dec 2 04:18:49 PST 2022


On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 23:09 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Use this_cpu_has() instead of boot_cpu_has() to perform the effective
> "disabled by BIOS?" checks for VMX.  This will allow consolidating code
> between vmx_disabled_by_bios() and vmx_check_processor_compat().
> 
> Checking the boot CPU isn't a strict requirement as any divergence in VMX
> enabling between the boot CPU and other CPUs will result in KVM refusing
> to load thanks to the aforementioned vmx_check_processor_compat().
> 
> Furthermore, using the boot CPU was an unintentional change introduced by
> commit a4d0b2fdbcf7 ("KVM: VMX: Use VMX feature flag to query BIOS
> enabling").  Prior to using the feature flags, KVM checked the raw MSR
> value from the current CPU.
> 
> Reported-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>

Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang at intel.com>

> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> index e859d2b7daa4..3f7d9f88b314 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
> @@ -2492,8 +2492,8 @@ static __init int cpu_has_kvm_support(void)
>  
>  static __init int vmx_disabled_by_bios(void)
>  {
> -	return !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL) ||
> -	       !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX);
> +	return !this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL) ||
> +	       !this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX);
>  }
>  
>  static int kvm_cpu_vmxon(u64 vmxon_pointer)



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