Hello! This is an experimental semi-automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20221201 as part of the linux-next scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by commits: Wed Nov 9 12:31:18 2022 -0500 1d0da94cdafe ("KVM: x86: do not go through ctxt->ops when emulating rsm") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1527763: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) arch/x86/kvm/smm.c:631 in emulator_leave_smm() 625 cr4 = kvm_read_cr4(vcpu); 626 if (cr4 & X86_CR4_PAE) 627 kvm_set_cr4(vcpu, cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PAE); 628 629 /* And finally go back to 32-bit mode. */ 630 efer = 0; vvv CID 1527763: Error handling issues (CHECKED_RETURN) vvv Calling "kvm_set_msr" without checking return value (as is done elsewhere 5 out of 6 times). 631 kvm_set_msr(vcpu, MSR_EFER, efer); 632 } 633 #endif 634 635 /* 636 * Give leave_smm() a chance to make ISA-specific changes to the vCPU If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first): Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1527763 ("Error handling issues") Fixes: 1d0da94cdafe ("KVM: x86: do not go through ctxt->ops when emulating rsm") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot