FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Avoid clearing VMCB_LBR in vmcb12" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x b53ab5167a81537777ac780bbd93d32613aa3bda
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026050331-registry-open-9a06@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From b53ab5167a81537777ac780bbd93d32613aa3bda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 00:33:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Avoid clearing VMCB_LBR in vmcb12

svm_copy_lbrs() always marks VMCB_LBR dirty in the destination VMCB.
However, nested_svm_vmexit() uses it to copy LBRs to vmcb12, and
clearing clean bits in vmcb12 is not architecturally defined.

Move vmcb_mark_dirty() to callers and drop it for vmcb12.

This also facilitates incoming refactoring that does not pass the entire
VMCB to svm_copy_lbrs().

Fixes: d20c796ca370 ("KVM: x86: nSVM: implement nested LBR virtualization")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303003421.2185681-2-yosry@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 3e2841598a36..0a35c815f4d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ static void nested_vmcb02_prepare_save(struct vcpu_svm *svm, struct vmcb *vmcb12
 	} else {
 		svm_copy_lbrs(vmcb02, vmcb01);
 	}
+	vmcb_mark_dirty(vmcb02, VMCB_LBR);
 	svm_update_lbrv(&svm->vcpu);
 }
 
@@ -1231,10 +1232,12 @@ int nested_svm_vmexit(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
 		kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, &svm->vcpu);
 
 	if (unlikely(guest_cpu_cap_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_LBRV) &&
-		     (svm->nested.ctl.virt_ext & LBR_CTL_ENABLE_MASK)))
+		     (svm->nested.ctl.virt_ext & LBR_CTL_ENABLE_MASK))) {
 		svm_copy_lbrs(vmcb12, vmcb02);
-	else
+	} else {
 		svm_copy_lbrs(vmcb01, vmcb02);
+		vmcb_mark_dirty(vmcb01, VMCB_LBR);
+	}
 
 	svm_update_lbrv(vcpu);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 543f9f3f966e..9b4f5a46d550 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -848,8 +848,6 @@ void svm_copy_lbrs(struct vmcb *to_vmcb, struct vmcb *from_vmcb)
 	to_vmcb->save.br_to		= from_vmcb->save.br_to;
 	to_vmcb->save.last_excp_from	= from_vmcb->save.last_excp_from;
 	to_vmcb->save.last_excp_to	= from_vmcb->save.last_excp_to;
-
-	vmcb_mark_dirty(to_vmcb, VMCB_LBR);
 }
 
 static void __svm_enable_lbrv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)