FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: VMX: Compare only a single byte for VMCS' "launched" in" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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 <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 61c08aa9606d4e48a8a50639c956448a720174c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 07:40:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Compare only a single byte for VMCS' "launched" in
vCPU-run

The vCPU-run asm blob does a manual comparison of a VMCS' launched status to execute the correct VM-Enter instruction, i.e. VMLAUNCH vs. VMRESUME. The launched flag is a bool, which is a typedef of _Bool. C99 does not define an exact size for _Bool, stating only that is must be large enough to hold '0' and '1'. Most, if not all, compilers use a single byte for _Bool, including gcc[1].

Originally, 'launched' was of type 'int' and so the asm blob used 'cmpl' to check the launch status. When 'launched' was moved to be stored on a per-VMCS basis, struct vcpu_vmx's "temporary" __launched flag was added in order to avoid having to pass the current VMCS into the asm blob. The new '__launched' was defined as a 'bool' and not an 'int', but the 'cmp' instruction was not updated.

This has not caused any known problems, likely due to compilers aligning variables to 4-byte or 8-byte boundaries and KVM zeroing out struct vcpu_vmx during allocation. I.e. vCPU-run accesses "junk" data, it just happens to always be zero and so doesn't affect the result.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg01127.html

index 95d618045001..fdb6305cc971 100644
@@ -6402,7 +6402,7 @@ static void __vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		"mov %%" _ASM_AX", %%cr2 \n\t"
 		"3: \n\t"
 		/* Check if vmlaunch or vmresume is needed */
-		"cmpl $0, %c[launched](%%" _ASM_CX ") \n\t"
+		"cmpb $0, %c[launched](%%" _ASM_CX ") \n\t"
 		/* Load guest registers.  Don't clobber flags. */
 		"mov %c[rax](%%" _ASM_CX "), %%" _ASM_AX " \n\t"
 		"mov %c[rbx](%%" _ASM_CX "), %%" _ASM_BX " \n\t"