[PATCH v2 15/32] KVM: SVM: Pass through GHCB MSR if and only if VM is an SEV-ES guest

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Jun 10 2025 - 19:01:40 EST


Disable interception of the GHCB MSR if and only if the VM is an SEV-ES
guest. While the exact behavior is completely undocumented in the APM,
common sense and testing on SEV-ES capable CPUs says that accesses to the
GHCB from non-SEV-ES guests will #GP. I.e. from the guest's perspective,
no functional change intended.

Fixes: 376c6d285017 ("KVM: SVM: Provide support for SEV-ES vCPU creation/loading")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 74dab69fb69e..a020aa755a7e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -4448,7 +4448,8 @@ static void sev_es_init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
/* Can't intercept XSETBV, HV can't modify XCR0 directly */
svm_clr_intercept(svm, INTERCEPT_XSETBV);

- /* Clear intercepts on selected MSRs */
+ /* Clear intercepts on MSRs that are context switched by hardware. */
+ svm_disable_intercept_for_msr(vcpu, MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB, MSR_TYPE_RW);
svm_disable_intercept_for_msr(vcpu, MSR_EFER, MSR_TYPE_RW);
svm_disable_intercept_for_msr(vcpu, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, MSR_TYPE_RW);
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 93d66109f495..7747f9bc3e9d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static const struct svm_direct_access_msrs {
{ .index = MSR_IA32_XSS, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_EFER, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, .always = false },
- { .index = MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB, .always = true },
+ { .index = MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB, .always = false },
{ .index = MSR_TSC_AUX, .always = false },
{ .index = X2APIC_MSR(APIC_ID), .always = false },
{ .index = X2APIC_MSR(APIC_LVR), .always = false },
--
2.50.0.rc0.642.g800a2b2222-goog