diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
index b6f4411b613e..f18f3a9f0943 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
@@ -5296,10 +5296,19 @@ static int handle_vmclear(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		if (vmptr == vmx->nested.current_vmptr)
 			nested_release_vmcs12(vcpu);
 
-		kvm_vcpu_write_guest(vcpu,
-				     vmptr + offsetof(struct vmcs12,
-						      launch_state),
-				     &zero, sizeof(zero));
+		/*
+		 * Silently ignore memory errors on VMCLEAR, Intel's pseudocode
+		 * for VMCLEAR includes a "ensure that data for VMCS referenced
+		 * by the operand is in memory" clause that guards writes to
+		 * memory, i.e. doing nothing for I/O is architecturally valid.
+		 *
+		 * FIXME: Suppress failures if and only if no memslot is found,
+		 * i.e. exit to userspace if __copy_to_user() fails.
+		 */
+		(void)kvm_vcpu_write_guest(vcpu,
+					   vmptr + offsetof(struct vmcs12,
+							    launch_state),
+					   &zero, sizeof(zero));
 	} else if (vmx->nested.hv_evmcs && vmptr == vmx->nested.hv_evmcs_vmptr) {
 		nested_release_evmcs(vcpu);
 	}