[PATCH v2 07/10] KVM: VMX: Drop explicit zeroing of MSR guest values at vCPU creation

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Don't zero out user return and nested MSRs during vCPU creation, and
instead rely on vcpu_vmx being zero-allocated.  Explicitly zeroing MSRs
is not wrong, and is in fact necessary if KVM ever emulates vCPU RESET
outside of vCPU creation, but zeroing only a subset of MSRs is confusing.

Poking directly into KVM's backing is also undesirable in that it doesn't
scale and is error prone.  Ideally KVM would have a common RESET path for
all MSRs, e.g. by expanding kvm_set_msr(), which would obviate the need
for this out-of-bad code (to support standalone RESET).

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index d44d07d5a02f..8d14066db3ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6819,10 +6819,8 @@ static int vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 			goto free_vpid;
 	}
 
-	for (i = 0; i < kvm_nr_uret_msrs; ++i) {
-		vmx->guest_uret_msrs[i].data = 0;
+	for (i = 0; i < kvm_nr_uret_msrs; ++i)
 		vmx->guest_uret_msrs[i].mask = -1ull;
-	}
 	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM)) {
 		/*
 		 * TSX_CTRL_CPUID_CLEAR is handled in the CPUID interception.
@@ -6879,8 +6877,6 @@ static int vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 	if (nested)
 		memcpy(&vmx->nested.msrs, &vmcs_config.nested, sizeof(vmx->nested.msrs));
-	else
-		memset(&vmx->nested.msrs, 0, sizeof(vmx->nested.msrs));
 
 	vcpu_setup_sgx_lepubkeyhash(vcpu);
 
-- 
2.33.0.464.g1972c5931b-goog




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