Re: [PATCH 5.5 111/176] KVM: nVMX: Emulate MTF when performing instruction emulation

Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-04T08:19:16Z

On 04/03/20 09:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> I'll be glad to just put KVM into the "never apply any patches to
> stable unless you explicitly mark it as such", but the sad fact is that
> many recent KVM fixes for reported CVEs never had any "Cc: stable@vger"
> markings.

Hmm, I did miss it in 433f4ba1904100da65a311033f17a9bf586b287e and
acff78477b9b4f26ecdf65733a4ed77fe837e9dc, but that's going back to
August 2018, so I can do better but it's not too shabby a record. :)

> They only had "Fixes:" tags and so I have had to dig them out
> of the tree and backport them myself in order to resolve those very
> public issues.
>
> So can I ask that you always properly tag things for stable? If so, I
> will be glad to ignore Fixes: tags for KVM patches in the future.
>
> I'll go drop this patch as well. Note, there are other KVM patches in
> this release cycle also, can someone verify that I did not overreach for
> them as well?

I checked them and they are fine.

Paolo