Re: [PATCH] Revert "KVM: nVMX: Do not expose MPX VMX controls when guest MPX disabled"

[Sean Christopherson]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 7/22/22 17:27, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > So revert it, at the potential cost
> > > of breaking L1s with a 6 year old kernel.
> > I would further qualify this with "breaking L1s with an_unpatched_  6 year old
> > kernel".  That fix was tagged for stable and made it way to at least the 4.9 and
> > 4.4 LTS releases.
> > 
> 
> Well, there _are_ people that use very old kernels and keep them up-to-date
> with fixes for only critical CVEs (for example by, ehm, paying my employer
> to do so).

Heh, I'm sure that's a winning strategy.

> But still it's way way unlikely for them to be used as L1 in a nested setup,
> whether on their own hardware or in the cloud.
>
> I pushed everything to kvm/queue, but depending on what you post it may be
> deferred to 5.21.

Can you drop the PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL revert?  I figured out how to achieve what you
intended, but in a more robust (and IMO more logical) manner.

If you don't drop it before I concoct the series, I'll just include a throwaway
patch to revert it.