From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DB1F815 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2D4BEC433D2; Sun, 23 Apr 2023 09:08:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1682240892; bh=dFKJvCRKfSHo+qH6cCOr04cBkiRUVHMiWW2ukLljRxs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=kmXIdxFiCTwWj7YibWR3VaoWJ+hVSDBHNVSDwoHQ1jXnJGbAaswK3D2gSLh9OsJPG IxNCzlwXT4tadLBiE6wuAGj56QJfd/jGoVXU/pd9gN9hqMfpMzoqO4awLoRuTrbjSQ WKZga38FrqmWGhWM8plPkyw7ICvIrNBsyn+74FNE1ovpyJ+1zp5jGHAZ2DocjrHq1C eRS5fys7VPZMRpQmaRCPR0eDIO+Q0JNM6Z/9+gvDArzb8BS9+ZRLcv6LsA8s/J3k0y gttrD9yK9K3rlcWfofBHyuloQSrYnN7iOnS/W4tG9JVq/DTWmhViCNN5spZVQeO/dD KUBT9gnLLOU2w== Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=goblin-girl.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1pqVhZ-00AceA-OL; Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:08:09 +0100 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:08:09 +0100 Message-ID: <86o7nfj79i.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Oliver Upton Cc: Paolo Bonzini , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, James Morse , Suzuki K Poulose , Zenghui Yu , Will Deacon , Mostafa Saleh , Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2] KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.3, part #4 In-Reply-To: References: <417f815d-3cf1-45ea-eba7-83e42f249424@redhat.com> <1023162f05aac3b460effa4a7baa0760@kernel.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/28.2 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: oliver.upton@linux.dev, pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, james.morse@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, will@kernel.org, smostafa@google.com, dan.carpenter@linaro.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 19:35:35 +0100, Oliver Upton wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 10:05:38AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > On 2023-04-22 00:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 4/19/23 17:54, Oliver Upton wrote: > > > > Hi Paolo, > > > > > > > > Here is v2 of the last batch of fixes for 6.3 (for real this time!) > > > > > > > > Details in the tag, but the noteworthy addition is Dan's fix for a > > > > rather obvious buffer overflow when writing to a firmware register. > > > > > > At least going by the Fixes tag, I think this one should have been > > > Cc'd to stable as well. Can you send it next week or would you like > > > someone else to handle the backport? > > Thanks for spotting that, I had a mental note to do so, but my memory is > fleeting at best :) > > > Indeed, that's missing. But yes, backports are definitely on > > the cards, and we'll make sure all stable versions get fixed > > as soon as the fix hits Linus' tree. > > Between this last batch of fixes for 6.3 and the 6.4 pull we've accrued > quite a backlog of stable-worthy patches, many of them are likely to be > nontrivial backports. > > I'll do the config_lock series, and I can pick up the firmware reg fix > if nobody else is handling that backport. > > Are you going to take a stab at the vCPU flags fix? Yup, that's on my list. The backport will be easy down to 6.0, but way more creative before that, as we don't have a proper flag management infrastructure in older kernels. Cheers, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.