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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:54:00 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: vmx: fix MPX detection

kvm_x86_ops is still NULL at this point.  Since kvm_init_msr_list
cannot fail, it is safe to initialize it before the call.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 39c28f09dfd5..49b514f76b5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5537,9 +5537,10 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque)
 		goto out_free_percpu;
 
 	kvm_set_mmio_spte_mask();
-	kvm_init_msr_list();
 
 	kvm_x86_ops = ops;
+	kvm_init_msr_list();
+
 	kvm_mmu_set_mask_ptes(PT_USER_MASK, PT_ACCESSED_MASK,
 			PT_DIRTY_MASK, PT64_NX_MASK, 0);
 
-- 
1.8.5.3

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