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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Clear KVM's cached guest CR3 at RESET/INIT" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 03a6e84069d1870f5b3d360e64cb330b66f76dee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:02:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Clear KVM's cached guest CR3 at RESET/INIT

Explicitly zero the guest's CR3 and mark it available+dirty at RESET/INIT. Per Intel's SDM and AMD's APM, CR3 is zeroed at both RESET and INIT. For RESET, this is a nop as vcpu is zero-allocated. For INIT, the bug has likely escaped notice because no firmware/kernel puts its page tables root at PA=0, let alone relies on INIT to get the desired CR3 for such page tables.

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arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +3 -0
index 06026f3d7ea2..8a83dd1b882e 100644
@@ -10895,6 +10895,9 @@ void kvm_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)
 	kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, X86_EFLAGS_FIXED);
 	kvm_rip_write(vcpu, 0xfff0);
 
+	vcpu->arch.cr3 = 0;
+	kvm_register_mark_dirty(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3);
+
 	/*
 	 * CR0.CD/NW are set on RESET, preserved on INIT.  Note, some versions
 	 * of Intel's SDM list CD/NW as being set on INIT, but they contradict