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    • Haozhong Zhang's avatar
      KVM: nVMX: remove incorrect vpid check in nested invvpid emulation · b2467e74
      Haozhong Zhang authored
      
      
      This patch removes the vpid check when emulating nested invvpid
      instruction of type all-contexts invalidation. The existing code is
      incorrect because:
       (1) According to Intel SDM Vol 3, Section "INVVPID - Invalidate
           Translations Based on VPID", invvpid instruction does not check
           vpid in the invvpid descriptor when its type is all-contexts
           invalidation.
       (2) According to the same document, invvpid of type all-contexts
           invalidation does not require there is an active VMCS, so/and
           get_vmcs12() in the existing code may result in a NULL-pointer
           dereference. In practice, it can crash both KVM itself and L1
           hypervisors that use invvpid (e.g. Xen).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHaozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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