kernel/1180-kvm-nvmx-hide-shadow-vmcs-right-after-vmclear.patch

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From 665c3ad7f18b63fba85a93250a75d44a5454734d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aidan Wallace <awallace@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:43:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Hide shadow VMCS right after VMCLEAR
JIRA: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-213327
KVM: nVMX: Hide shadow VMCS right after VMCLEAR
free_nested() frees the shadow VMCS while vmcs01 still points to it. But
because it is asynchronous with respect to loaded_vmcs_clear(), the vCPU
might migrate before the pointer is cleared and __loaded_vmcs_clear()
may then execute VMCLEAR.
The VMCS needs to stay attached until its explicit VMCLEAR completes, but
then it can be hidden and the page safely freed.
Fixes: 355f4fb1405e ("kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR an active shadow VMCS after last use")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 622ebfac01ba4f9c0060cebd41257fe46fc4a0b3)
Signed-off-by: Aidan Wallace <awallace@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 5570e0c..49d7cda 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -331,6 +331,7 @@ static void nested_put_vmcs12_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
+ struct vmcs *shadow_vmcs;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vmx->loaded_vmcs != &vmx->vmcs01))
vmx_switch_vmcs(vcpu, &vmx->vmcs01);
@@ -348,9 +349,15 @@ static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
vmx->nested.current_vmptr = INVALID_GPA;
if (enable_shadow_vmcs) {
vmx_disable_shadow_vmcs(vmx);
- vmcs_clear(vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs);
- free_vmcs(vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs);
+
+ /*
+ * Keep the pointer visible until after VMCLEAR, so migration
+ * can clear an active shadow VMCS on the old CPU.
+ */
+ shadow_vmcs = vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs;
+ vmcs_clear(shadow_vmcs);
vmx->vmcs01.shadow_vmcs = NULL;
+ free_vmcs(shadow_vmcs);
}
kfree(vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12);
vmx->nested.cached_vmcs12 = NULL;