Re: [PATCH 6/7] KVM: SVM: hyper-v: Enlightened MSR-Bitmap support

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/04/21 16:41, Vineeth Pillai wrote:
>   
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HYPERV)
> +static inline void hv_vmcb_dirty_nested_enlightenments(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	struct vmcb *vmcb = to_svm(vcpu)->vmcb;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * vmcb can be NULL if called during early vcpu init.
> +	 * And its okay not to mark vmcb dirty during vcpu init
> +	 * as we mark it dirty unconditionally towards end of vcpu
> +	 * init phase.
> +	 */
> +	if (vmcb && vmcb_is_clean(vmcb, VMCB_HV_NESTED_ENLIGHTENMENTS) &&
> +	    vmcb->hv_enlightenments.hv_enlightenments_control.msr_bitmap)
> +		vmcb_mark_dirty(vmcb, VMCB_HV_NESTED_ENLIGHTENMENTS);
> +}

In addition to what Vitaly said, can svm->vmcb really be NULL?  If so it 
might be better to reorder initializations and skip the NULL check.

Paolo