[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't eagerly teardown the vgic on init error

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 02:05:26PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> > I'm not even sure that's a terrible fix, looking at the changelog I get
> > the impression the test is deliberately looking to do problematic things
> > with the goal of making sure that the kernel handles them appropriately.
> > That's not interacting well with the KVM selftest framework's general
> > assert early assert often approach but it's a reasonable thing to want
> > to test so relaxing the asserts like this is one way of squaring the
> > circile.

> It *is* a terrible fix, since it makes no effort in finding out
> whether the VM is be dead for a good or a bad reason. In a way, the
> fix is worse than the current error, because it silently hide the
> crap.

I mean, it's clearly not ideal or finished especially in that it's just
allowing the error code throughout the program rather than during a
specific case but the broad approach of flagging that the VM is expected
to already be in a bad state and not support operations any more seems
reasonable.
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