Do not update the new vmcb's last-run cpu when switching to a different vmcb. If the vCPU is migrated between its last run and a vmcb switch, e.g. for nested VM-Exit, then setting the cpu without marking the vmcb dirty will lead to KVM running the vCPU on a different physical cpu with stale clean bit settings.
vcpu->cpu current_vmcb->cpu hardware pre_svm_run() cpu0 cpu0 cpu0,clean kvm_arch_vcpu_load() cpu1 cpu0 cpu0,clean svm_switch_vmcb() cpu1 cpu1 cpu0,clean pre_svm_run() cpu1 cpu1 kaboom Simply delete the offending code; unlike VMX, which needs to update the cpu at switch time due to the need to do VMPTRLD, SVM only cares about which cpu last ran the vCPU. Fixes: af18fa775d07 ("KVM: nSVM: Track the physical cpu of the vmcb vmrun through the vmcb") Cc: Cathy Avery <cav...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c index 48b396f33bee..89619cc52cf4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c @@ -1311,14 +1311,6 @@ void svm_switch_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm, struct kvm_vmcb_info *target_vmcb) svm->current_vmcb = target_vmcb; svm->vmcb = target_vmcb->ptr; svm->vmcb_pa = target_vmcb->pa; - - /* - * Track the physical CPU the target_vmcb is running on - * in order to mark the VMCB dirty if the cpu changes at - * its next vmrun. - */ - - svm->current_vmcb->cpu = svm->vcpu.cpu; } static int svm_create_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) -- 2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog