Re: [PATCH 48/61] KVM: x86: Do host CPUID at load time to mask KVM cpu caps

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Feb 25 2020 - 16:08:45 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:18:12PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/02/20 19:52, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_CPUID_AUDIT
> > + /* Entry needs to be fully populated when auditing is enabled. */
> > + entry.function = cpuid.function;
> > + entry.index = cpuid.index;
> > +#endif
>
> This shows that the audit case is prone to bitrot, which is good reason
> to enable it by default.

I have no argument against that, especially since I missed this case during
development and only caught it when running on a different system that I
had happened to configure with CONFIG_KVM_CPUID_AUDIT=y. :-)