Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] KVM: x86: Clean up MSR access/failure handling

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Aug 23 2024 - 19:54:14 EST


On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:19:25 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Rework KVM's MSR access handling, and more specific the handling of failures,
> to begin the march towards removing host_initiated exemptions for CPUID
> checks, e.g. to eventually turn code like this:
>
> if (!msr_info->host_initiated &&
> !guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
> return 1;
>
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 misc, thanks!

[01/10] KVM: SVM: Disallow guest from changing userspace's MSR_AMD64_DE_CFG value
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/74a0e79df68a
[02/10] KVM: x86: Move MSR_TYPE_{R,W,RW} values from VMX to x86, as enums
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/b58b808cbe93
[03/10] KVM: x86: Rename KVM_MSR_RET_INVALID to KVM_MSR_RET_UNSUPPORTED
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/aaecae7b6a2b
[04/10] KVM: x86: Refactor kvm_x86_ops.get_msr_feature() to avoid kvm_msr_entry
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/74c6c98a598a
[05/10] KVM: x86: Rename get_msr_feature() APIs to get_feature_msr()
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/b848f24bd74a
[06/10] KVM: x86: Refactor kvm_get_feature_msr() to avoid struct kvm_msr_entry
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/7075f1636150
[07/10] KVM: x86: Funnel all fancy MSR return value handling into a common helper
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/1cec2034980a
[08/10] KVM: x86: Hoist x86.c's global msr_* variables up above kvm_do_msr_access()
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/3adef9034596
[09/10] KVM: x86: Suppress failures on userspace access to advertised, unsupported MSRs
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/64a5d7a1091f
[10/10] KVM: x86: Suppress userspace access failures on unsupported, "emulated" MSRs
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/44dd0f5732b4

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