[PATCH 21/45] KVM: x86: Remove spurious clearing of async #PF MSR

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 22:02:32 EST


Remove a bogus clearing of apf.msr_val from kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().

apf.msr_val is only set to a non-zero value by kvm_pv_enable_async_pf(),
which is only reachable by kvm_set_msr_common(), i.e. by writing
MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN. KVM does not autonomously write said MSR, i.e.
can only be written via KVM_SET_MSRS or KVM_RUN. Since KVM_SET_MSRS and
KVM_RUN are vcpu ioctls, they require a valid vcpu file descriptor.
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy() is only called if KVM_CREATE_VCPU fails, and KVM
declares KVM_CREATE_VCPU successful once the vcpu fd is installed and
thus visible to userspace. Ergo, apf.msr_val cannot be non-zero when
kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy() is called.

Fixes: 344d9588a9df0 ("KVM: Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery.")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index dd667df37d63..dfd5c5244a6b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -9097,8 +9097,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- vcpu->arch.apf.msr_val = 0;
-
kvm_arch_vcpu_free(vcpu);
}

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