Re: [PATCH] x86/vmware: Fix hypercall clobbers

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 03:08:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 at 14:38, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm going to change that commit message to make it clear that it's a
> > QEMU bug, plain and simple. There's no point in claiming this fixes a
> > kernel bug when it's a pure workaround for a bug elsewhere.
> 
> I have created an issue at gitlab:
> 
>    https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3293
> 
> and hopefully this will get fixed in QEMU at some point.
> 
> Adding Paolo to the participants, since he presumably knows what to do
> with qemu, since he touched that qemu file a couple of months ago.
> 
> (The fix looks trivial, as suggested by Alexey: just change the
> "uint32_t data[6];" to use target_ulong instead of uint32_t, but
> somebody needs to test it and maybe qemu has other rules for register
> types)

I posted a QEMU fix here:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-02/msg01713.html

(using uint64_t instead of target_ulong at the maintainer's request as
they are phasing out the target_ulong type).

-- 
Josh