x86/reboot: VMCLEAR active VMCSes before emergency reboot
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:18:41 +0000 (13:18 -0700)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:37:14 +0000 (15:37 -0700)
commitb23c83ad2c638420ec0608a9de354507c41bec29
tree0b0778d125d3736404f549553574a2f52a42a4a4
parent41e90a69a49be2e3467e811ae8fdc17456af1b02
x86/reboot: VMCLEAR active VMCSes before emergency reboot

VMCLEAR active VMCSes before any emergency reboot, not just if the kernel
may kexec into a new kernel after a crash.  Per Intel's SDM, the VMX
architecture doesn't require the CPU to flush the VMCS cache on INIT.  If
an emergency reboot doesn't RESET CPUs, cached VMCSes could theoretically
be kept and only be written back to memory after the new kernel is booted,
i.e. could effectively corrupt memory after reboot.

Opportunistically remove the setting of the global pointer to NULL to make
checkpatch happy.

Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721201859.2307736-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kexec.h
arch/x86/include/asm/reboot.h
arch/x86/kernel/crash.c
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c