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KVM: VMX: Flush shadow VMCS on emergency reboot
authorChao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:07:25 +0000 (13:07 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:26:13 +0000 (16:26 +0200)
commit916c059f1113ce11e40027dcbcba4028fa31d7e4
tree4618d11ec562768aeb1bd4d4d79906771b825e3c
parent4bbf1931a33e49730185ed45a4d3a7fcc4ec7b42
KVM: VMX: Flush shadow VMCS on emergency reboot

[ Upstream commit a0ee1d5faff135e28810f29e0f06328c66f89852 ]

Ensure the shadow VMCS cache is evicted during an emergency reboot to
prevent potential memory corruption if the cache is evicted after reboot.

This issue was identified through code inspection, as __loaded_vmcs_clear()
flushes both the normal VMCS and the shadow VMCS.

Avoid checking the "launched" state during an emergency reboot, unlike the
behavior in __loaded_vmcs_clear(). This is important because reboot NMIs
can interfere with operations like copy_shadow_to_vmcs12(), where shadow
VMCSes are loaded directly using VMPTRLD. In such cases, if NMIs occur
right after the VMCS load, the shadow VMCSes will be active but the
"launched" state may not be set.

Fixes: 16f5b9034b69 ("KVM: nVMX: Copy processor-specific shadow-vmcs to VMCS12")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324140849.2099723-1-chao.gao@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c