From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> commit 208050dac5ef4de5cb83ffcafa78499c94d0b5ad upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -8693,8 +8693,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_postcreate(struct kvm void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { - vcpu->arch.apf.msr_val = 0; - kvm_arch_vcpu_free(vcpu); }