Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Don't expose TSC scaling to L1 when on Hyper-V

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 6/13/22 18:16, Anirudh Rayabharam wrote:
> +	if (!kvm_has_tsc_control)
> +		msrs->secondary_ctls_high &= ~SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING;
> +
>   	msrs->secondary_ctls_low = 0;
>   	msrs->secondary_ctls_high &=
>   		SECONDARY_EXEC_DESC |
> @@ -6667,8 +6670,7 @@ void nested_vmx_setup_ctls_msrs(struct nested_vmx_msrs *msrs, u32 ept_caps)
>   		SECONDARY_EXEC_RDRAND_EXITING |
>   		SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_INVPCID |
>   		SECONDARY_EXEC_RDSEED_EXITING |
> -		SECONDARY_EXEC_XSAVES |
> -		SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING;
> +		SECONDARY_EXEC_XSAVES;
>   
>   	/*

This is wrong because it _always_ disables SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING,
even if kvm_has_tsc_control == true.

That said, I think a better implementation of this patch is to just add
a version of evmcs_sanitize_exec_ctrls that takes a struct
nested_vmx_msrs *, and call it at the end of nested_vmx_setup_ctl_msrs like

	evmcs_sanitize_nested_vmx_vsrs(msrs);

Even better (but I cannot "mentally test it" offhand) would be just

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index e802f71a9e8d..b3425ce835c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ int vmx_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
  		 * sanity checking and refuse to boot. Filter all unsupported
  		 * features out.
  		 */
-		if (!msr_info->host_initiated &&
+		if (static_branch_unlikely(&enable_evmcs) ||
  		    vmx->nested.enlightened_vmcs_enabled)
  			nested_evmcs_filter_control_msr(msr_info->index,
  							&msr_info->data);

I cannot quite understand the host_initiated check, so I'll defer to
Vitaly on why it is needed.  Most likely, removing it would cause some
warnings in QEMU with e.g. "-cpu Haswell,+vmx"; but I think it's a
userspace bug and we should remove that part of the condition.  You
don't need to worry about that part, we'll cross that bridge if the
above patch works for your case.

Thanks,

Paolo