On 14/02/2018 17:44, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 04:58:46PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote: >> @@ -2681,11 +2731,15 @@ static int __msr_io(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_msrs *msrs, >> { >> int i, idx; >> >> - idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu); >> + if (vcpu) >> + idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu); >> + >> for (i = 0; i < msrs->nmsrs; ++i) >> if (do_msr(vcpu, entries[i].index, &entries[i].data)) >> break; >> - srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx); >> + >> + if (vcpu) >> + srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx); > > > ./include/linux/srcu.h:175:2: warning: ‘idx’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > __srcu_read_unlock(sp, idx); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:2739:9: note: ‘idx’ was declared here > int i, idx; > ^~~ > > I know, silly gcc. > Nice point---even better, just push srcu_read_lock/unlock to msr_io or even msr_io's callers. Thanks, Paolo