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Subject[PATCH] KVM: x86: remove bogus user-triggerable WARN_ON
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The WARN_ON is essentially comparing a user-provided value with 0.  It is
trivial to trigger it just by passing garbage to KVM_SET_CLOCK. Guests
can break if you do so, but if it hurts when you do like this just do not
do it.

Reported-by: syzbot+00be5da1d75f1cc95f6b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 9446e6fce0ab ("KVM: x86: fix WARN_ON check of an unsigned less than zero")
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 3156e25b0774..d65ff2008cf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2444,7 +2444,6 @@ static int kvm_guest_time_update(struct kvm_vcpu *v)
vcpu->hv_clock.tsc_timestamp = tsc_timestamp;
vcpu->hv_clock.system_time = kernel_ns + v->kvm->arch.kvmclock_offset;
vcpu->last_guest_tsc = tsc_timestamp;
- WARN_ON((s64)vcpu->hv_clock.system_time < 0);

/* If the host uses TSC clocksource, then it is stable */
pvclock_flags = 0;
--
2.18.2
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