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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c index 892791019968..61c83424285c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c @@ -4798,6 +4798,17 @@ void nested_vmx_vmexit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 vm_exit_reason, vmx_switch_vmcs(vcpu, &vmx->vmcs01); + /* + * If IBRS is advertised to the vCPU, KVM must flush the indirect + * branch predictors when transitioning from L2 to L1, as L1 expects + * hardware (KVM in this case) to provide separate predictor modes. + * Bare metal isolates VMX root (host) from VMX non-root (guest), but + * doesn't isolate different VMCSs, i.e. in this case, doesn't provide + * separate modes for L2 vs L1. + */ + if (guest_cpuid_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_SPEC_CTRL)) + indirect_branch_prediction_barrier(); + /* Update any VMCS fields that might have changed while L2 ran */ vmcs_write32(VM_EXIT_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, vmx->msr_autoload.host.nr); vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, vmx->msr_autoload.guest.nr); |