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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: vmread should not set rflags to specify success in" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-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 a4d956b9390418623ae5d07933e2679c68b6f83c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 14:25:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: vmread should not set rflags to specify success in
case of #PF

In case writing to vmread destination operand result in a #PF, vmread should not call nested_vmx_succeed() to set rflags to specify success. Similar to as done in VMPTRST (See handle_vmptrst()).

arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c +3 -1
index e038a331583c..ef2d53854d15 100644
@@ -4799,8 +4799,10 @@ static int handle_vmread(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 					instr_info, true, len, &gva))
 			return 1;
 		/* _system ok, nested_vmx_check_permission has verified cpl=0 */
-		if (kvm_write_guest_virt_system(vcpu, gva, &value, len, &e))
+		if (kvm_write_guest_virt_system(vcpu, gva, &value, len, &e)) {
 			kvm_inject_page_fault(vcpu, &e);
+			return 1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return nested_vmx_succeed(vcpu);