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Commit 62dd57dd authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: WARN on non-zero CRs at RESET to detect improper initalization



WARN if CR0, CR3, or CR4 are non-zero at RESET, which given the current
KVM implementation, really means WARN if they're not zeroed at vCPU
creation.  VMX in particular has several ->set_*() flows that read other
registers to handle side effects, and because those flows are common to
RESET and INIT, KVM subtly relies on emulated/virtualized registers to be
zeroed at vCPU creation in order to do the right thing at RESET.

Use CRs as a sentinel because they are most likely to be written as side
effects, and because KVM specifically needs CR0.PG and CR0.PE to be '0'
to correctly reflect the state of the vCPU's MMU.  CRs are also loaded
and stored from/to the VMCS, and so adds some level of coverage to verify
that KVM doesn't conflate zero-allocating the VMCS with properly
initializing the VMCS with VMWRITEs.

Note, '0' is somewhat arbitrary, vCPU creation can technically stuff any
value for a register so long as it's coherent with respect to the current
vCPU state.  In practice, '0' works for all registers and is convenient.

Suggested-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210921000303.400537-11-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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