Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] KVM: nSVM: Always intercept VMMCALL when L2 is active

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov

Date: Wed Mar 04 2026 - 03:37:40 EST


Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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];

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Vitaly