Re: [REGRESSION 5.0.x] Windows XP broken on KVM

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 18 2019 - 03:53:34 EST


On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:38:52AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've got a regression report on the recent 5.0.x kernel, starting
> from 5.0.6, where Windows XP can't boot on KVM any longer.
>
> The culprit seems to be the patch
> KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
> with the upstream commit 45def77ebf79e2e8942b89ed79294d97ce914fa0.
> Reverting this alone fixed the problem.
>
> The report is found at openSUSE bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132694
>
> Is there already a followup fix? If not, we need to revert it from
> stable, at least.

Is this also a problem in 5.1-rc5?

Those KVM tests being integrated by Linaro into the stable testing
process can't come fast enough, I was told yesterday that they would be
in there "soon"...

thanks,

greg k-h