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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 2/7/26 00:08, 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.

Thanks, I have queued the patch; I will send a pull request next week 
and also submit an update to Fedora earlier than that.

Sorry about the delay, I was a bit busy with something called the "merge 
window"... you might have heard of it. :)

Paolo

> (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)
>
>                Linus