KVM: nVMX: Document that ignoring memory failures for VMCLEAR is deliberate

Explicitly drop the result of kvm_vcpu_write_guest() when writing the
"launch state" as part of VMCLEAR emulation, and add a comment to call
out that KVM's behavior is architecturally valid.  Intel's pseudocode
effectively says that VMCLEAR is a nop if the target VMCS address isn't
in memory, e.g. if the address points at MMIO.

Add a FIXME to call out that suppressing failures on __copy_to_user() is
wrong, as memory (a memslot) does exist in that case.  Punt the issue to
the future as open coding kvm_vcpu_write_guest() just to make sure the
guest dies with -EFAULT isn't worth the extra complexity.  The flaw will
need to be addressed if KVM ever does something intelligent on uaccess
failures, e.g. to support post-copy demand paging, but in that case KVM
will need a more thorough overhaul, i.e. VMCLEAR shouldn't need to open
code a core KVM helper.

No functional change intended.

Reported-by: coverity-bot <[email protected]>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527765 ("Error handling issues")
Fixes: 587d7e72aedc ("kvm: nVMX: VMCLEAR should not cause the vCPU to shut down")
Cc: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

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