| Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/7] kvm: vmx: pass MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL and MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD down to the guest | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:41:07 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:08 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > + if (have_spec_ctrl && vmx->spec_ctrl != 0) > + wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL, vmx->spec_ctrl); > +
I think this one probably *is* safe even without an 'else lfence', which means that the CPU can speculate around it, but it wants a comment explaining that someone has properly analysed it and saying precisely why.[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] |