linux-kernel - [PATCH 8/9] KVM: SVM: Limit incorrect check on SVM_EXIT

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Message-ID: <20251113225621.1688428-9-seanjc@google.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:56:20 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, 
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, 
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, 
	Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>, 
	Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] KVM: SVM: Limit incorrect check on SVM_EXIT_ERR to
 running as a VM

Limit KVM's incorrect check for VMXEXIT_INVALID, a.k.a. SVM_EXIT_ERR, to
running as a VM, as detected by X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR.  The exit_code and
all failure codes, e.g. VMXEXIT_INVALID, are 64-bit values, and so checking
only bits 31:0 could result in false positives when running on non-broken
hardware, e.g. in the extremely unlikely scenario exit code 0xffffffffull
is ever generated by hardware.

Keep the 32-bit check to play nice with running on broken KVM (for years,
KVM has not set bits 63:32 when synthesizing nested SVM VM-Exits).

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 31ee4f65dcc2..801dcfc64d0b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -427,7 +427,10 @@ static __always_inline struct vcpu_svm *to_svm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 static inline bool svm_is_vmrun_failure(u64 exit_code)
 {
-	return (u32)exit_code == (u32)SVM_EXIT_ERR;
+	if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
+		return (u32)exit_code == (u32)SVM_EXIT_ERR;
+
+	return exit_code == SVM_EXIT_ERR;
 }
 
 /*
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