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    kvm: nVMX: Relax guest IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL constraints · 85c9aae9
    Jim Mattson authored
    Commit 37e4c997 ("KVM: VMX: validate individual bits of guest
    MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL") broke the KVM_SET_MSRS ABI by instituting
    new constraints on the data values that kvm would accept for the guest
    MSR, IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL. Perhaps these constraints should have been
    opt-in via a new KVM capability, but they were applied
    indiscriminately, breaking at least one existing hypervisor.
    
    Relax the constraints to allow either or both of
    FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_OUTSIDE_SMX and
    FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED_INSIDE_SMX to be set when nVMX is
    enabled. This change is sufficient to fix the aforementioned breakage.
    
    Fixes: 37e4c997 ("KVM: VMX: validate individual bits of guest MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    85c9aae9
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