Hello Joerg Roedel, The patch 01de8b09e606: "KVM: SVM: Add intercept checks for SVM instructions" from Apr 4, 2011, leads to the following static checker warning: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:4180 check_svme() error: uninitialized symbol 'efer'. arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c 4174 static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt) 4175 { 4176 u64 efer; 4177 4178 ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer); The "efer" variable could be uninitialized if ->get_msr() returns false. 4179 4180 if (!(efer & EFER_SVME)) 4181 return emulate_ud(ctxt); 4182 4183 return X86EMUL_CONTINUE; 4184 } regards, dan carpenter