Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:28:14 +0000 | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 24/25] KVM: VMX: Cache MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC in vmcs_config |
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2022, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> @@ -2613,6 +2614,8 @@ static __init int setup_vmcs_config(struct vmcs_config *vmcs_conf, > >> if (((vmx_msr_high >> 18) & 15) != 6) > >> return -EIO; > >> > >> + rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC, misc_msr); > > > > Might make sense to sanitize fields that KVM doesn't use and that are not exposed > > to L1. Not sure it's worthwhile though as many of the bits fall into a grey area, > > e.g. all the SMM stuff isn't technically used by KVM, but that's largely because > > much of it just isn't relevant to virtualization. > > > > I'm totally ok leaving it as-is, though maybe name it "unsanitized_misc" or so > > to make that obvious? > > I couldn't convince myself to add 'unsanitized_' prefix as I don't think > it significantly reduces possible confusion (the quiestion would be > 'sanitized for what and in which way?') so a need for 'git grep' seems > imminent anyway.
Yeah, no objection to leaving it alone. VMX_MISC is such an oddball MSR that it practically comes with disclaimers anyways :-)
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