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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c25
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index 764c23dc444f..0ffd8b2dbfe2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -9378,7 +9378,30 @@ static int nested_vmx_handle_enlightened_vmptrld(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
vmx->nested.hv_evmcs = kmap(vmx->nested.hv_evmcs_page);
- if (vmx->nested.hv_evmcs->revision_id != VMCS12_REVISION) {
+ /*
+ * Currently, KVM only supports eVMCS version 1
+ * (== KVM_EVMCS_VERSION) and thus we expect guest to set this
+ * value to first u32 field of eVMCS which should specify eVMCS
+ * VersionNumber.
+ *
+ * Guest should be aware of supported eVMCS versions by host by
+ * examining CPUID.0x4000000A.EAX[0:15]. Host userspace VMM is
+ * expected to set this CPUID leaf according to the value
+ * returned in vmcs_version from nested_enable_evmcs().
+ *
+ * However, it turns out that Microsoft Hyper-V fails to comply
+ * to their own invented interface: When Hyper-V use eVMCS, it
+ * just sets first u32 field of eVMCS to revision_id specified
+ * in MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC. Instead of used eVMCS version number
+ * which is one of the supported versions specified in
+ * CPUID.0x4000000A.EAX[0:15].
+ *
+ * To overcome Hyper-V bug, we accept here either a supported
+ * eVMCS version or VMCS12 revision_id as valid values for first
+ * u32 field of eVMCS.
+ */
+ if ((vmx->nested.hv_evmcs->revision_id != KVM_EVMCS_VERSION) &&
+ (vmx->nested.hv_evmcs->revision_id != VMCS12_REVISION)) {
nested_release_evmcs(vcpu);
return 0;
}