From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:34773 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755134AbdCJH4k (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:56:40 -0500 Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] hv: don't reset hv_context.tsc_page on crash" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree To: vkuznets@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kys@microsoft.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: From: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:56:24 +0100 Message-ID: <148913258445221@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to . thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 56ef6718a1d8d77745033c5291e025ce18504159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vitaly Kuznetsov Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 01:16:27 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] hv: don't reset hv_context.tsc_page on crash It may happen that secondary CPUs are still alive and resetting hv_context.tsc_page will cause a consequent crash in read_hv_clock_tsc() as we don't check for it being not NULL there. It is safe as we're not freeing this page anyways. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Cc: Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c index 13937563c9db..fbd8ce6d7ff3 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/hv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c @@ -309,9 +309,10 @@ void hv_cleanup(bool crash) hypercall_msr.as_uint64 = 0; wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC, hypercall_msr.as_uint64); - if (!crash) + if (!crash) { vfree(hv_context.tsc_page); - hv_context.tsc_page = NULL; + hv_context.tsc_page = NULL; + } } #endif }