Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] x86: KVM: svm: Fix a check in nested_svm_vmrun()" failed to apply to 5.3-stable tree

[Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>]

<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> The patch below does not apply to the 5.3-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>.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>
> From a061985b81a20248da60589d01375ebe9bec4dfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:38:52 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: KVM: svm: Fix a check in nested_svm_vmrun()
>
> We refactored this code a bit and accidentally deleted the "-" character
> from "-EINVAL".  The kvm_vcpu_map() function never returns positive
> EINVAL.
>
> Fixes: c8e16b78c614 ("x86: KVM: svm: eliminate hardcoded RIP
> advancement from vmrun_interception()")

Hm, this commit wasn't backported to 5.3-stable so no fix is needed
(scripts don't check pre-requisites like commits mentioned in Fixes:?)

Also, c8e16b78c614 is not a stable@ candidate IMO.

> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

This wasn't needed as it's only 5.4 which will have the offending commit
and the fix.

> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index fdeaf8f44949..2854aafc489e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -3598,7 +3598,7 @@ static int nested_svm_vmrun(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>  	vmcb_gpa = svm->vmcb->save.rax;
>  
>  	ret = kvm_vcpu_map(&svm->vcpu, gpa_to_gfn(vmcb_gpa), &map);
> -	if (ret == EINVAL) {
> +	if (ret == -EINVAL) {
>  		kvm_inject_gp(&svm->vcpu, 0);
>  		return 1;
>  	} else if (ret) {
>

-- 
Vitaly