Commit 271544f
KVM: nVMX: Emulate HLT in L2 if it's not intercepted
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-95318
commit f43f7a2
Author: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Fri Jan 31 17:55:11 2025 -0800
KVM: nVMX: Emulate HLT in L2 if it's not intercepted
Extend VMX's nested intercept logic for emulated instructions to handle
HLT interception, primarily for testing purposes. Failure to allow
emulation of HLT isn't all that interesting, as emulating HLT while L2 is
active either requires forced emulation (and no #UD intercept in L1), TLB
games in the guest to coerce KVM into emulating the wrong instruction, or
a bug elsewhere in KVM.
E.g. without commit 47ef3ef ("KVM: VMX: Handle event vectoring
error in check_emulate_instruction()"), KVM can end up trying to emulate
HLT if RIP happens to point at a HLT when a vectored event arrives with
L2's IDT pointing at emulated MMIO.
Note, vmx_check_intercept() is still broken when L1 wants to intercept an
instruction, as KVM injects a #UD instead of synthesizing a nested VM-Exit.
That issue extends far beyond HLT, punt on it for now.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250201015518.689704-5-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>1 parent d6d0f39 commit 271544f
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