linux-kernel - [PATCH] KVM: x86: document limitations of MSR filtering

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Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:17:29 -0400
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@...group.com>
Subject: [PATCH] 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@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 0e08253b003f..8911a4310406 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -4091,6 +4091,11 @@ 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
-- 
2.31.1