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KVM: x86/xen: Restrict hypercall MSR to unofficial synthetic range
Reject userspace attempts to set the Xen hypercall page MSR to an index
outside of the "standard" virtualization range [0x40000000, 0x4fffffff],
as KVM is not equipped to handle collisions with real MSRs, e.g. KVM
doesn't update MSR interception, conflicts with VMCS/VMCB fields, special
case writes in KVM, etc.
While the MSR index isn't strictly ABI, i.e. can theoretically float to
any value, in practice no known VMM sets the MSR index to anything other
than 0x40000000 or 0x40000200.
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250215011437.1203084-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>1 parent 3617c0e commit 5c17848
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