This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: selftests: Fix kvm_check_cap() assertion to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-selftests-fix-kvm_check_cap-assertion.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1df7816124bbfff7cf6c41008135fe3585ce4b29 Author: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 15 16:04:43 2021 +0100 KVM: selftests: Fix kvm_check_cap() assertion [ Upstream commit d8ac05ea13d789d5491a5920d70a05659015441d ] KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl can return any negative value on error, and not necessarily -1. Change the assertion to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-Id: <20210615150443.1183365-1-tabba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c index 41cf45416060..38de88e5ffbb 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int kvm_check_cap(long cap) exit(KSFT_SKIP); ret = ioctl(kvm_fd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, cap); - TEST_ASSERT(ret != -1, "KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION IOCTL failed,\n" + TEST_ASSERT(ret >= 0, "KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION IOCTL failed,\n" " rc: %i errno: %i", ret, errno); close(kvm_fd);