For the shortlog, it's not the "static call" that's incorrectly NULL, it's the kvm_x86_ops.func that's wrong. E.g. yank out static calls and KVM could still keep the WARN. On Mon, Feb 14, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Use the newly corrected KVM_X86_OP annotations to warn about possible > NULL pointer dereferences as soon as the vendor module is loaded. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > index e3f7d958c150..5dce6fbd9ab6 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > @@ -1546,9 +1546,10 @@ extern struct kvm_x86_ops kvm_x86_ops; > > static inline void kvm_ops_static_call_update(void) > { > -#define KVM_X86_OP(func) \ > +#define KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL(func) \ > static_call_update(kvm_x86_##func, kvm_x86_ops.func); > -#define KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL KVM_X86_OP > +#define KVM_X86_OP(func) \ > + WARN_ON(!kvm_x86_ops.func); KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL(func) As before, I'd prefer that we not have a KVM_X86_OP => KVM_X86_OP_OPTIONAL dependency and instead have a common __KVM_X86_OP for this one case. > #include <asm/kvm-x86-ops.h> > } > > -- > 2.31.1 > >