KVM: nVMX: unconditionally cancel preemption timer in free_nested (CVE-2019-7221)
Bugzilla: 1671904 There are multiple code paths where an hrtimer may have been started to emulate an L1 VMX preemption timer that can result in a call to free_nested without an intervening L2 exit where the hrtimer is normally cancelled. Unconditionally cancel in free_nested to cover all cases. Embargoed until Feb 7th 2019. Signed-off-by: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com> Reported-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Reported-by: Felix Wilhelm <fwilhelm@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Message-Id: <20181011184646.154065-1-pshier@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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