From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopher...@intel.com>

commit 73cb85568433feadb79e963bf2efba9b3e9ae3df upstream.

... as a malicious userspace can run a toy guest to generate invalid
virtual-APIC page addresses in L1, i.e. flood the kernel log with error
messages.

Fixes: 690908104e39d ("KVM: nVMX: allow tests to use bad virtual-APIC page 
address")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopher...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -2891,9 +2891,6 @@ static void nested_get_vmcs12_pages(stru
                         */
                        vmcs_clear_bits(CPU_BASED_VM_EXEC_CONTROL,
                                        CPU_BASED_TPR_SHADOW);
-               } else {
-                       printk("bad virtual-APIC page address\n");
-                       dump_vmcs();
                }
        }
 


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