From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 3f16a5c318392cbb5a0c7a3d19dff8c8ef3c38ee upstream. This warning can be triggered easily by userspace, so it should certainly not cause a panic if panic_on_warn is set. Reported-by: syzbot+c03f30b4f4c46bdf8575@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ static int set_tsc_khz(struct kvm_vcpu * vcpu->arch.tsc_always_catchup = 1; return 0; } else { - WARN(1, "user requested TSC rate below hardware speed\n"); + pr_warn_ratelimited("user requested TSC rate below hardware speed\n"); return -1; } } @@ -1303,8 +1303,8 @@ static int set_tsc_khz(struct kvm_vcpu * user_tsc_khz, tsc_khz); if (ratio == 0 || ratio >= kvm_max_tsc_scaling_ratio) { - WARN_ONCE(1, "Invalid TSC scaling ratio - virtual-tsc-khz=%u\n", - user_tsc_khz); + pr_warn_ratelimited("Invalid TSC scaling ratio - virtual-tsc-khz=%u\n", + user_tsc_khz); return -1; }