[PATCH v5 2/2] KVM: nSVM: Always intercept VMMCALL when L2 is active
From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 19:22:56 EST
Always intercept VMMCALL now that KVM properly synthesizes a #UD as
appropriate, i.e. when L1 doesn't want to intercept VMMCALL, to avoid
putting L2 into an infinite #UD loop if KVM_X86_QUIRK_FIX_HYPERCALL_INSN
is enabled.
By letting L2 execute VMMCALL natively and thus #UD, for all intents and
purposes KVM morphs the VMMCALL intercept into a #UD intercept (KVM always
intercepts #UD). When the hypercall quirk is enabled, KVM "emulates"
VMMCALL in response to the #UD by trying to fixup the opcode to the "right"
vendor, then restarts the guest, without skipping the VMMCALL. As a
result, the guest sees an endless stream of #UDs since it's already
executing the correct vendor hypercall instruction, i.e. the emulator
doesn't anticipate that the #UD could be due to lack of interception, as
opposed to a truly undefined opcode.
Fixes: 0d945bd93511 ("KVM: SVM: Don't allow nested guest to VMMCALL into host")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h | 4 ----
arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 7 -------
2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h
index 9af03970d40c..f70d076911a6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/hyperv.h
@@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ static inline bool nested_svm_is_l2_tlb_flush_hcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
void svm_hv_inject_synthetic_vmexit_post_tlb_flush(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
#else /* CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV */
static inline void nested_svm_hv_update_vm_vp_ids(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
-static inline bool nested_svm_l2_tlb_flush_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
-{
- return false;
-}
static inline bool nested_svm_is_l2_tlb_flush_hcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return false;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 750bf93c5341..2ac28d2c34ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -156,13 +156,6 @@ void recalc_intercepts(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
vmcb_clr_intercept(c, INTERCEPT_VINTR);
}
- /*
- * We want to see VMMCALLs from a nested guest only when Hyper-V L2 TLB
- * flush feature is enabled.
- */
- if (!nested_svm_l2_tlb_flush_enabled(&svm->vcpu))
- vmcb_clr_intercept(c, INTERCEPT_VMMCALL);
-
for (i = 0; i < MAX_INTERCEPT; i++)
c->intercepts[i] |= g->intercepts[i];
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog