Re: [PATCH 2/2] riscv: kvm: return SBI_ERR_FAILURE for pmu_event_info OOM

[Anup Patel]

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 11:06 PM Osama Abdelkader
<osama.abdelkader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info() returned -ENOMEM from the
> SBI extension handler, which caused kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall()
> to abort KVM_RUN and surface the error to userspace instead of
> completing the ECALL with a negative SBI error in a0.
> Use SBI_ERR_FAILURE and the normal retdata path, matching other PMU
> handlers and kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler comment.
>
> Fixes: e309fd113b9f ("RISC-V: KVM: Implement get event info function")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Osama Abdelkader <osama.abdelkader@xxxxxxxxx>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Queued this as fix for Linux-7.1-rcX

Thanks,
Anup


> ---
>  arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> index 91aa0155a420..bb46dcbfb24d 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c
> @@ -501,8 +501,10 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long saddr_low
>         }
>
>         einfo = kzalloc(shmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (!einfo)
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> +       if (!einfo) {
> +               ret = SBI_ERR_FAILURE;
> +               goto out;
> +       }
>
>         ret = kvm_vcpu_read_guest(vcpu, shmem, einfo, shmem_size);
>         if (ret) {
> --
> 2.43.0
>