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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest mode" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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 <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

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

From 07721feee46b4b248402133228235318199b05ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 15:26:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Don't emulate instructions in guest mode

vmx_check_intercept is not yet fully implemented. To avoid emulating instructions disallowed by the L1 hypervisor, refuse to emulate instructions by default.

[Made commit, added commit msg - Oliver]
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +1 -1
index dcca514ffd42..5801a86f9c24 100644
@@ -7164,7 +7164,7 @@ static int vmx_check_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	}
 
 	/* TODO: check more intercepts... */
-	return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
+	return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64