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    KVM: VMX: Avoid rearranging switched guest msrs while they are loaded · 33f9c505
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    KVM tries to run as much as possible with the guest msrs loaded instead of
    host msrs, since switching msrs is very expensive.  It also tries to minimize
    the number of msrs switched according to the guest mode; for example,
    MSR_LSTAR is needed only by long mode guests.  This optimization is done by
    setup_msrs().
    
    However, we must not change which msrs are switched while we are running with
    guest msr state:
    
     - switch to guest msr state
     - call setup_msrs(), removing some msrs from the list
     - switch to host msr state, leaving a few guest msrs loaded
    
    An easy way to trigger this is to kexec an x86_64 linux guest.  Early during
    setup, the guest will switch EFER to not include SCE.  KVM will stop saving
    MSR_LSTAR, and on the next msr switch it will leave the guest LSTAR loaded.
    The next host syscall will end up in a random location in the kernel.
    
    Fix by reloading the host msrs before changing the msr list.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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