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When running as an SEV+ guest, treat SVM as unsupported even if CPUID (and
other reporting, e.g. MSRs) enumerate support for SVM, as KVM doesn't
support nested virtualization within an SEV VM (KVM would need to
explicitly share all VMCBs and other assets with the untrusted host), let
alone running nested VMs within SEV-ES+ guests (e.g. emulating VMLOAD,
VMSAVE, and VMRUN all require access to guest register state). And outside
of KVM, there is no in-tree user of SVM enabling.
Arguably, the hypervisor/VMM (e.g. QEMU) should clear SVM from guest CPUID
for SEV VMs, especially for SEV-ES+, but super duper technically, it's
feasible to run nested VMs in SEV+ guests (with many caveats). More
importantly, Linux-as-a-guest has played nice with SVM being advertised to
SEV+ guests for a long time.
Treating SVM as unsupported fixes a regression where a clean shutdown of
an SEV-ES+ guest degrades into an abrupt termination. Due to a gnarly
virtualization hole in SEV-ES (the architecture), where EFER must NOT be
intercepted by the hypervisor (because the untrusted hypervisor can't set
e.g. EFER.LME on behalf o the guest), the _host's_ EFER.SVME is visible to
the guest. Because EFER.SVME must be always '1' while in guest mode,
Linux-the-guest sees EFER.SVME=1 even when _its_ EFER.SVME is '0', thinks
it has enabled virtualization, and ultimately can cause
x86_svm_emergency_disable_virtualization_cpu() to execute STGI to ensure
GIF is enabled. Executing STGI _should_ be fine, except Linux is a also
wee bit paranoid when running as an SEV-ES guest.
Because L0 sees EFER.SVME=0 for the guest, a well-behaved L0 hypervisor
will intercept STGI (to inject #UD), and thus generate a #VC on the STGI.
Which, again, should be fine. Unfortunately, vc_check_opcode_bytes() fails
to account for STGI and other SVM instructions, throws a fatal error, and
triggers a termination request. In a perfect world, the #VC handler would
be more forgiving of unknown intercepts, especially when the #VC happened
on an instruction with exception fixup. For now, just fix the immediate
regression.
Fixes: 428afac5a8 ("KVM: x86: Move bulk of emergency virtualizaton logic to virt subsystem")
Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c820e242-9f3a-4210-b414-19d11b022404@amd.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409191341.1932853-1-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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