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KVM: VMX: Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR with list address
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Sat, 6 Dec 2025 00:17:19 +0000 (16:17 -0800)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2026 19:52:22 +0000 (11:52 -0800)
commit9757a5aebcd6ca808d5b80831649438a017478ad
tree6908e79ec1afb05df4c9bf552cb05ed28de89dc8
parentc3d6a7210a4de909683a36779f5b8567f79a3688
KVM: VMX: Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR with list address

Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR to point at the vCPU's
msr_autostore list in anticipation of utilizing the auto-store
functionality, and to harden KVM against stray reads to pfn 0 (or, in
theory, a random pfn if the underlying CPU uses a complex scheme for
encoding VMCS data).  The MSR auto lists are supposed to be ignored if the
associated COUNT VMCS field is '0', but leaving the ADDR field
zero-initialized in memory is an unnecessary risk (albeit a minuscule risk)
given that the cost is a single VMWRITE during vCPU creation.

Tested-by: Manali Shukla <manali.shukla@amd.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206001720.468579-44-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c