[PATCH v7 15/20] KVM: x86: Guard valid XCR0.APX settings

From: Chang S. Bae

Date: Tue Sep 01 2026 - 22:52:44 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 7d59d301e1e5..2962501c4b67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -5616,8 +5616,13 @@ 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 91666b868ab9..76f70d2631f6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -699,6 +699,10 @@ 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