FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: VMX: avoid running vmx_handle_exit_irqoff in case of" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-09-13 11:28:10
Subsystem: kernel virtual machine for x86 (kvm/x86), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Sean Christopherson, Paolo Bonzini, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-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 [off-list ref].

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 81b4b56d4f8130bbb99cf4e2b48082e5b4cfccb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Levitsky <redacted>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:57:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: avoid running vmx_handle_exit_irqoff in case of
 emulation

If we are emulating an invalid guest state, we don't have a correct
exit reason, and thus we shouldn't do anything in this function.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <redacted>
Message-Id: [off-list ref]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 95b5a48c4f2b ("KVM: VMX: Handle NMIs, #MCs and async #PFs in common irqs-disabled fn", 2019-06-18)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index fada1055f325..0c2c0d5ae873 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6382,6 +6382,9 @@ static void vmx_handle_exit_irqoff(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	struct vcpu_vmx *vmx = to_vmx(vcpu);
 
+	if (vmx->emulation_required)
+		return;
+
 	if (vmx->exit_reason.basic == EXIT_REASON_EXTERNAL_INTERRUPT)
 		handle_external_interrupt_irqoff(vcpu);
 	else if (vmx->exit_reason.basic == EXIT_REASON_EXCEPTION_NMI)
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