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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 16:23:23 EST


On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:56:02AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 18/04/19 09:38, 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.
>
> No, it's the first time I hear this and I actually test Windows XP
> before every pull request I send to Linus... I'll download 5.0.x and
> test it there.

Any further ideas about this?

thanks,

greg k-h