[PATCH 1/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Stop returning internal values to userspace
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Dec 25 21:11:21 AEDT 2021
Excerpts from Fabiano Rosas's message of December 24, 2021 7:15 am:
> Our kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run currently returns the RESUME_HOST values
> to userspace, against the API of the KVM_RUN ioctl which returns 0 on
> success.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> This was noticed while enabling the kvm selftests for powerpc. There's
> an assert at the _vcpu_run function when we return a value different
> from the expected.
That's nasty. Looks like qemu never touches the return value except if
it was < 0, so hopefully should be okay.
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> index a72920f4f221..1e130bb087c4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> @@ -1849,6 +1849,14 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> #ifdef CONFIG_ALTIVEC
> out:
> #endif
> +
> + /*
> + * We're already returning to userspace, don't pass the
> + * RESUME_HOST flags along.
> + */
> + if (r > 0)
> + r = 0;
> +
> vcpu_put(vcpu);
> return r;
> }
> --
> 2.33.1
>
>
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