[PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: WARN and reject loading KVM if NX is supported but not enabled

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 12:45:51 EST


WARN if NX is reported as supported but not enabled in EFER. All flavors
of the kernel, including non-PAE 32-bit kernels, set EFER.NX=1 if NX is
supported, even if NX usage is disable via kernel command line. KVM relies
on NX being enabled if it's supported, e.g. KVM will generate illegal NPT
entries if nx_huge_pages is enabled and NX is supported but not enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index acc28473dec7..1f6595df45de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -10981,6 +10981,9 @@ int kvm_arch_hardware_setup(void *opaque)
int r;

rdmsrl_safe(MSR_EFER, &host_efer);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX) &&
+ !(host_efer & EFER_NX)))
+ return -EIO;

if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES))
rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_XSS, host_xss);
--
2.32.0.272.g935e593368-goog