Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept IRET when injecting NMI and vNMI is enabled

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:20:21 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When vNMI is enabled, rely entirely on hardware to correctly handle NMI
> blocking, i.e. don't intercept IRET to detect when NMIs are no longer
> blocked.  KVM already correctly ignores svm->nmi_masked when vNMI is
> enabled, so the effect of the bug is essentially an unnecessary VM-Exit.
> 
> KVM intercepts IRET for two reasons:
>  - To track NMI masking to be able to know at any point of time if NMI
>    is masked.
>  - To track NMI windows (to inject another NMI after the guest executes
>    IRET, i.e. unblocks NMIs)
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 svm, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: SVM: Don't intercept IRET when injecting NMI and vNMI is enabled
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/72046d0a077a

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