When we're unable to skip instruction with kvm_emulate_instruction() we will not advance RIP and most likely the guest will get stuck as consequitive attempts to execute the same instruction will likely result in the same behavior. As we're not supposed to see these messages under normal conditions, switch to pr_err_once(). Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c index 7e843b340490..80f576e05112 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c @@ -782,7 +782,8 @@ static void skip_emulated_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) if (!svm->next_rip) { if (kvm_emulate_instruction(vcpu, EMULTYPE_SKIP) != EMULATE_DONE) - printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: NOP\n", __func__); + pr_err_once("KVM: %s: unable to skip instruction\n", + __func__); return; } if (svm->next_rip - kvm_rip_read(vcpu) > MAX_INST_SIZE) -- 2.20.1