[PATCH v6 43/44] KVM: VMX: Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR with list address

Sean Christopherson
2025-12-06T00:18:53Z

Initialize vmcs01.VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR to point at the vCPU's
msr_autostore list in anticipation of utilizing the auto-store
functionality, and to harden KVM against stray reads to pfn 0 (or, in
theory, a random pfn if the underlying CPU uses a complex scheme for
encoding VMCS data). The MSR auto lists are supposed to be ignored if the
associated COUNT VMCS field is '0', but leaving the ADDR field
zero-initialized in memory is an unnecessary risk (albeit a minuscule risk)
given that the cost is a single VMWRITE during vCPU creation.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 3f64d4b1b19c..6a17cb90eaf4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -4933,6 +4933,7 @@ static void init_vmcs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
vmcs_write64(VM_FUNCTION_CONTROL, 0);

vmcs_write32(VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_COUNT, 0);
+ vmcs_write64(VM_EXIT_MSR_STORE_ADDR, __pa(vmx->msr_autostore.val));
vmcs_write32(VM_EXIT_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, 0);
vmcs_write64(VM_EXIT_MSR_LOAD_ADDR, __pa(vmx->msr_autoload.host.val));
vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_MSR_LOAD_COUNT, 0);
--
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