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Re: [PATCH 1/3] vm_event: svm: Don't BUG() when enabling intercept on hypervisor MSR


  • To: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:50:27 -0400
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On 2026-09-24 07:56, Teddy Astie wrote:
svm_msrbits() only cover MSRs in the ranges specified in APM and returns
NULL for all the other ones (i.e hypervisor range), which triggers the
BUG_ON() that follows.

APM specifies that MSR outside the architectural and AMD specific ranges
are unconditionally intercepted, hence don't require any specific handling
by SVM logic, fix this by ignoring cases when msr_bit is NULL.

This is only reachable with CONFIG_VM_EVENT using 
XEN_DOMCTL_MONITOR_EVENT_MOV_TO_MSR
to configure a MSR intercept in the hypervisor range (0x40000000–0x40001fff).

Fixes: 6e9fc4d628b6 ("hvm/svm: Enable MSR events")
Signed-off-by: Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Jason



 


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