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From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:43:55 -0800
Subject: kvm: nVMX: Relax guest IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL constraints
Git-commit: 85c9aae9ac8b228f2134b56d4fc743afc446947a
Patch-mainline: v5.5-rc1
References: bsc#1164329

Commit 37e4c997dadf ("KVM: VMX: validate individual bits of guest
MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL") broke the KVM_SET_MSRS ABI by instituting
new constraints on the data values that kvm would accept for the guest
MSR, IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL. Perhaps these constraints should have been
opt-in via a new KVM capability, but they were applied
indiscriminately, breaking at least one existing hypervisor.

Relax the constraints to allow either or both of
FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX and
FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX to be set when nVMX is
enabled. This change is sufficient to fix the aforementioned breakage.

Fixes: 37e4c997dadf ("KVM: VMX: validate individual bits of guest MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL")
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index d39475e2d44e..d175429c91b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7115,10 +7115,12 @@ static void vmx_cpuid_update(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	if (nested_vmx_allowed(vcpu))
 		to_vmx(vcpu)->msr_ia32_feature_control_valid_bits |=
+			FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX |
 			FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX;
 	else
 		to_vmx(vcpu)->msr_ia32_feature_control_valid_bits &=
-			~FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX;
+			~(FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX |
+			  FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX);
 
 	if (nested_vmx_allowed(vcpu)) {
 		nested_vmx_cr_fixed1_bits_update(vcpu);