On Sat, Aug 08, 2026, Gokul K wrote: > Two x86 selftests create a VM and then take an early return that skips the > kvm_vm_free() at the end of the function. > > Patch 1 is the plain-SEV path of sev_smoke_test(), which returns straight > out of the UCALL_DONE case instead of leaving the loop. The SEV-ES path > next to it breaks out and frees correctly. > > Patch 2 is nx_huge_pages_test, which returns as soon as it has confirmed > that disabling NX huge pages is denied without CAP_SYS_BOOT. This one is > not an unusual error path: nx_huge_pages_test.sh runs the test without > CAP_SYS_BOOT for any non-root user, so a normal run always takes it. > > Neither leak causes a failure today, since the process exits shortly > afterwards. They do mean those paths never exercise VM teardown.
Eh, not really, they just exercise VM teardown at a different point in the processes' lifecycle.
