KVM: VMX: Refuse to load kvm_intel if EPT and NX are disabled

Refuse to load KVM if NX support is not available and EPT is not enabled.
Shadow paging has assumed NX support since commit 9167ab799362 ("KVM:
vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active"), so
for all intents and purposes this has been a de facto requirement for
over a year.

Do not require NX support if EPT is enabled purely because Intel CPUs let
firmware disable NX support via MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLES.  If not for that,
VMX (and KVM as a whole) could require NX support with minimal risk to
breaking userspace.

Fixes: 9167ab799362 ("KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210615164535.2146172-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 68a72c80bd3f..889e83f71235 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -7723,6 +7723,12 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void)
 	    !cpu_has_vmx_invept_global())
 		enable_ept = 0;
 
+	/* NX support is required for shadow paging. */
+	if (!enable_ept && !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX)) {
+		pr_err_ratelimited("kvm: NX (Execute Disable) not supported\n");
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
+
 	if (!cpu_has_vmx_ept_ad_bits() || !enable_ept)
 		enable_ept_ad_bits = 0;