linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/13] KVM: x86: WARN on injected+pending exception even in nested case

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Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:05:19 -0700
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] KVM: x86: WARN on injected+pending exception even
 in nested case

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:26 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> WARN if a pending exception is coincident with an injected exception
> before calling check_nested_events() so that the WARN will fire even if
> inject_pending_event() bails early because check_nested_events() detects
> the conflict.  Bailing early isn't problematic (quite the opposite), but
> suppressing the WARN is undesirable as it could mask a bug elsewhere in
> KVM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>