From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:26:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: x86/virt: Force-clear X86_FEATURE_VMX if configuring root VMCS fails
X-Git-Tag: v7.1-rc1~118^2~3^2~12
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95e4adb24ff6e876f6d2b960cf922d3c969d4dc4;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

x86/virt: Force-clear X86_FEATURE_VMX if configuring root VMCS fails

If allocating and configuring a root VMCS fails, clear X86_FEATURE_VMX in
all CPUs so that KVM doesn't need to manually check root_vmcs.  As added
bonuses, clearing VMX will reflect that VMX is unusable in /proc/cpuinfo,
and will avoid a futile auto-probe of kvm-intel.ko.

WARN if allocating a root VMCS page fails, e.g. to help users figure out
why VMX is broken in the unlikely scenario something goes sideways during
boot (and because the allocation should succeed unless there's a kernel
bug).  Tweak KVM's error message to suggest checking kernel logs if VMX is
unsupported (in addition to checking BIOS).

Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260214012702.2368778-6-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index abd4830f71d86..e767835a4f3a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -2927,14 +2927,15 @@ static bool __kvm_is_vmx_supported(void)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL) ||
-	    !this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX)) {
+	if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL)) {
 		pr_err("VMX not enabled (by BIOS) in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL on CPU %d\n", cpu);
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (!per_cpu(root_vmcs, cpu))
+	if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_VMX)) {
+		pr_err("VMX not fully enabled on CPU %d.  Check kernel logs and/or BIOS\n", cpu);
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	return true;
 }
diff --git a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c b/arch/x86/virt/hw.c
index 56972f594d902..40495872fdfbb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c
+++ b/arch/x86/virt/hw.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static __init void x86_vmx_exit(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static __init int x86_vmx_init(void)
+static __init int __x86_vmx_init(void)
 {
 	u64 basic_msr;
 	u32 rev_id;
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static __init int x86_vmx_init(void)
 		struct vmcs *vmcs;
 
 		page = __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
-		if (!page) {
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!page)) {
 			x86_vmx_exit();
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ static __init int x86_vmx_init(void)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+static __init int x86_vmx_init(void)
+{
+	int r;
+
+	r = __x86_vmx_init();
+	if (r)
+		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_VMX);
+	return r;
+}
 #else
 static __init int x86_vmx_init(void) { return -EOPNOTSUPP; }
 #endif