FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7):

commit: 323d73a8ecad22bf3284f11112a7cce576ade6af ("KVM: nVMX: Change KVM_STATE_NESTED_EVMCS to signal vmcs12 is copied from eVMCS")
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

in testcase: kernel_selftests
with following parameters:

	group: kselftests-01

test-description: The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual code paths in the kernel.
test-url: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kselftest.txt


on test machine: 8 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16G memory

caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):


If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>

# selftests: kvm: vmx_set_nested_state_test
# ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
#   lib/kvm_util.c:1277: ret == 0
#   pid=12810 tid=12810 - Invalid argument
#      1	0x0000000000403624: vcpu_nested_state_set at kvm_util.c:1275
#      2	0x0000000000401197: test_nested_state at vmx_set_nested_state_test.c:32
#      3	0x0000000000401562: test_vmx_nested_state at vmx_set_nested_state_test.c:151
#      4	0x000000000040100f: main at vmx_set_nested_state_test.c:283
#      5	0x00007efdc57f409a: ?? ??:0
#      6	0x0000000000401099: _start at ??:?
#   KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE failed, ret: -1 errno: 22
not ok 12 selftests: kvm: vmx_set_nested_state_test


To reproduce:

        git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git
        cd lkp-tests
        bin/lkp install job.yaml  # job file is attached in this email
        bin/lkp run     job.yaml



Thanks,
Rong Chen