[PATCH v3 1/8] x86/vmx: handle writes to MISC_ENABLE MSR

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Such handling consist in checking that no bits have been changed from
the read value, if that's the case silently drop the write, otherwise
inject a fault.

At least Windows guests will expect to write to the MISC_ENABLE MSR
with the same value that's been read from it.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
index a0d58ffbe2..4717e50d4a 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -3163,7 +3163,7 @@ static int vmx_msr_write_intercept(unsigned int msr, 
uint64_t msr_content)
 
     switch ( msr )
     {
-        uint64_t rsvd;
+        uint64_t rsvd, tmp;
 
     case MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS:
         __vmwrite(GUEST_SYSENTER_CS, msr_content);
@@ -3301,6 +3301,13 @@ static int vmx_msr_write_intercept(unsigned int msr, 
uint64_t msr_content)
         /* None of these MSRs are writeable. */
         goto gp_fault;
 
+    case MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE:
+        /* Silently drop writes that don't change the reported value. */
+        if ( vmx_msr_read_intercept(msr, &tmp) != X86EMUL_OKAY ||
+             tmp != msr_content )
+            goto gp_fault;
+        break;
+
     case MSR_P6_PERFCTR(0)...MSR_P6_PERFCTR(7):
     case MSR_P6_EVNTSEL(0)...MSR_P6_EVNTSEL(7):
     case MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR0...MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR2:
-- 
2.28.0