Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kvm-x86 tree with the kvm-fixes tree

From: Paolo Bonzini

Date: Thu Mar 12 2026 - 13:54:30 EST


On 3/12/26 18:21, Mark Brown wrote:
diff --cc arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index e6477affac9a0,3407deac90bd6..0000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@@ -4880,15 -5030,11 +5030,11 @@@ static int svm_leave_smm(struct kvm_vcp
vmcb12 = map.hva;
nested_copy_vmcb_control_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->control);
nested_copy_vmcb_save_to_cache(svm, &vmcb12->save);
- ret = enter_svm_guest_mode(vcpu, smram64->svm_guest_vmcb_gpa, false);
- if (nested_svm_check_cached_vmcb12(vcpu) < 0)
- goto unmap_save;

The right resolution is to keep these two lines...

-
- if (enter_svm_guest_mode(vcpu, smram64->svm_guest_vmcb_gpa,
- vmcb12, false) != 0)
- if (ret)
++ if (enter_svm_guest_mode(vcpu, smram64->svm_guest_vmcb_gpa, false) != 0)

... while of course this part is okay.

Paolo

goto unmap_save;
+ ret = 0;
svm->nested.nested_run_pending = 1;
unmap_save: