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    KVM: nVMX: Document that ignoring memory failures for VMCLEAR is deliberate · 057b1875
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Explicitly drop the result of kvm_vcpu_write_guest() when writing the
    "launch state" as part of VMCLEAR emulation, and add a comment to call
    out that KVM's behavior is architecturally valid.  Intel's pseudocode
    effectively says that VMCLEAR is a nop if the target VMCS address isn't
    in memory, e.g. if the address points at MMIO.
    
    Add a FIXME to call out that suppressing failures on __copy_to_user() is
    wrong, as memory (a memslot) does exist in that case.  Punt the issue to
    the future as open coding kvm_vcpu_write_guest() just to make sure the
    guest dies with -EFAULT isn't worth the extra complexity.  The flaw will
    need to be addressed if KVM ever does something intelligent on uaccess
    failures, e.g. to support post-copy demand paging, but in that case KVM
    will need a more thorough overhaul, i.e. VMCLEAR shouldn't need to open
    code a core KVM helper.
    
    No functional change intended.
    Reported-by: default avatarcoverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@chromium.org>
    Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527765 ("Error handling issues")
    Fixes: 587d7e72 ("kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down")
    Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Message-Id: <20221220154224.526568-1-seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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