diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index 8ff20523661b..d8ea4ebd79e7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ static void free_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!vmx->nested.vmxon && !vmx->nested.smm.vmxon)
 		return;
 
+	hrtimer_cancel(&vmx->nested.preemption_timer);
 	vmx->nested.vmxon = false;
 	vmx->nested.smm.vmxon = false;
 	free_vpid(vmx->nested.vpid02);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3d27206f6c01..e67ecf25e690 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5116,6 +5116,13 @@ int kvm_read_guest_virt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 {
 	u32 access = (kvm_x86_ops->get_cpl(vcpu) == 3) ? PFERR_USER_MASK : 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * FIXME: this should call handle_emulation_failure if X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED
+	 * is returned, but our callers are not ready for that and they blindly
+	 * call kvm_inject_page_fault.  Ensure that they at least do not leak
+	 * uninitialized kernel stack memory into cr2 and error code.
+	 */
+	memset(exception, 0, sizeof(*exception));
 	return kvm_read_guest_virt_helper(addr, val, bytes, vcpu, access,
 					  exception);
 }
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 5ecea812cb6a..585845203db8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3000,8 +3000,10 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm,
 	if (ops->init)
 		ops->init(dev);
 
+	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
 	if (ret < 0) {
+		kvm_put_kvm(kvm);
 		mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
 		list_del(&dev->vm_node);
 		mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
@@ -3009,7 +3011,6 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm,
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	kvm_get_kvm(kvm);
 	cd->fd = ret;
 	return 0;
 }