Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: eliminate some meaningless code

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 21/02/20 16:23, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing no VMM actually uses this ioctl(), e.g. neither Qemu or CrosVM
> use it, which is why the broken behavior has gone unnoticed.  Don't suppose
> you'd want to write a selftest to hammer KVM_{SET,GET}_CPUID2?
> 
> int kvm_vcpu_ioctl_get_cpuid2(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>                               struct kvm_cpuid2 *cpuid,
>                               struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 __user *entries)
> {
>         if (cpuid->nent < vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent)
>                 return -E2BIG;
> 
>         if (copy_to_user(entries, &vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries,
>                          vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent * sizeof(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2)))
>                 return -EFAULT;
> 
> 	cpuid->nent = vcpu->arch.cpuid_nent;
> 
>         return 0;
> }

I would just drop KVM_GET_CPUID2 altogether and see if someone complains.

Paolo