[PATCH v5 15/20] KVM: x86: Guard valid XCR0.APX settings

From: Chang S. Bae

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 13:49:53 EST


Prevent invalid XCR0.APX configurations in two cases: conflict with MPX
and lack of SVM support.

In the non-compacted XSAVE format, APX and MPX conflict on the same
offset. Although MPX is being deprecated in practice, KVM should
explicitly reject such configurations that set both bits.

At this point, only VMX supports EGPRs. SVM will require corresponding
extensions to handle EGPR indices.

Updating the supported XCR0 mask will be done separately.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ab3f4937-38f5-4354-8850-bf773c159bbe@xxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 7 ++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index ef69a51ab27f..eb1b2ba1261d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -5612,8 +5612,13 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}

+ /*
+ * APX introduces EGPRs, which require additional VMCB support.
+ * Disable APX until the necessary extensions are handled.
+ */
kvm_caps.supported_xcr0 &= ~(XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS |
- XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR);
+ XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR |
+ XFEATURE_MASK_APX);

if (tsc_scaling) {
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSCRATEMSR)) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 84b2dcfcb007..266d7a02855b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -682,6 +682,10 @@ int __kvm_set_xcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 index, u64 xcr)
(!(xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_BNDCSR)))
return 1;

+ /* MPX and APX conflict in the non-compacted XSAVE format */
+ if (xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_BNDREGS && xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_APX)
+ return 1;
+
if (xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_AVX512) {
if (!(xcr0 & XFEATURE_MASK_YMM))
return 1;
--
2.53.0