get_msr() of MSR_EFER is currently always going to succeed, but static checker doesn't see that far. Don't complicate stuff and just use 0 for the fallback -- it means that the feature is not present. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c index c25cfaf584e7..0816ab2e8adc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c @@ -4173,7 +4173,7 @@ static int check_dr_write(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt) static int check_svme(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt) { - u64 efer; + u64 efer = 0; ctxt->ops->get_msr(ctxt, MSR_EFER, &efer); -- 2.13.0