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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2022-03-15 18:17:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2022-04-02 05:34:47 -0400 |
| commit | ce2f72e26c1a352f5f2d1cda19bcafeff6c3b4fc (patch) | |
| tree | 7be9dc75f3fdd933b1279eaf41d96cf88eab42f7 /Documentation | |
| parent | ac8d6cad3c7b39633d5899dc2fa9abec7135e83e (diff) | |
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KVM: x86: document limitations of MSR filtering
MSR filtering requires an exit to userspace that is hard to implement and
would be very slow in the case of nested VMX vmexit and vmentry MSR
accesses. Document the limitation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 04b26c2a7159..d210a4e8dce3 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -4081,6 +4081,11 @@ x2APIC MSRs are always allowed, independent of the ``default_allow`` setting, and their behavior depends on the ``X2APIC_ENABLE`` bit of the APIC base register. +.. warning:: + MSR accesses coming from nested vmentry/vmexit are not filtered. + This includes both writes to individual VMCS fields and reads/writes + through the MSR lists pointed to by the VMCS. + If a bit is within one of the defined ranges, read and write accesses are guarded by the bitmap's value for the MSR index if the kind of access is included in the ``struct kvm_msr_filter_range`` flags. If no range |