FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Ignore EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0 when preparing L2 state" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-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-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1c4c84a643b704e473cb171f7b61359ff29b12a4
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107061523-failed-5.10-1c4c84a643b7@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'

Thanks,
Sasha

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

From 1c4c84a643b704e473cb171f7b61359ff29b12a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 16:20:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nSVM: Ignore EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0 when preparing L2
 state

Force EFER.LMA=0 if EFER.LME=0 when preparing L2 state for VMRUN, i.e.
mimic real hardware's behavior of ignoring EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0.  VMRUN
unfortunately allows the nonsensical combination, i.e. doesn't fail, but
KVM itself has an invariant EFER.LMA can be set et if and only if EFER.LME
is set.   Breaking that invariant can lead to a variety of issue,
particularly in MMU code that keys off EFER.LMA when determining whether to
emulate/virtualization 4/5-level paging versus PAE paging.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902232028.2767071-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
index 49fb10ad1f9f6..23d29597d6bf2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c
@@ -789,6 +789,10 @@ static void nested_vmcb02_prepare_save(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
 
 	kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, save->rflags | X86_EFLAGS_FIXED);
 
+	/* SVM ignores EFER.LMA if EFER.LME=0 (instead of failing VMRUN). */
+	if (!(svm->nested.save.efer & EFER_LME))
+		svm->nested.save.efer &= ~EFER_LMA;
+
 	svm_set_efer(vcpu, svm->nested.save.efer);
 
 	svm_set_cr0(vcpu, svm->nested.save.cr0);
-- 
2.53.0