Patch "KVM: nVMX: kmap() can't fail" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM: nVMX: kmap() can't fail

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-nvmx-kmap-can-t-fail.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 17:23:58 CET 2018
From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:42:14 +0100
Subject: KVM: nVMX: kmap() can't fail
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Message-ID: <1519382538-15143-26-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com>

From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

commit 42cf014d38d8822cce63703a467e00f65d000952 upstream.

kmap() can't fail, therefore it will always return a valid pointer. Let's
just get rid of the unnecessary checks.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[jwang: port to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -4532,10 +4532,6 @@ static int vmx_complete_nested_posted_in
 			return 0;
 
 		vapic_page = kmap(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page);
-		if (!vapic_page) {
-			WARN_ON(1);
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		}
 		__kvm_apic_update_irr(vmx->nested.pi_desc->pir, vapic_page);
 		kunmap(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page);
 
@@ -9238,11 +9234,6 @@ static inline bool nested_vmx_merge_msr_
 		return false;
 	}
 	msr_bitmap = (unsigned long *)kmap(page);
-	if (!msr_bitmap) {
-		nested_release_page_clean(page);
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		return false;
-	}
 
 	if (nested_cpu_has_virt_x2apic_mode(vmcs12)) {
 		if (nested_cpu_has_apic_reg_virt(vmcs12))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com are

queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-remove-noreplace-paravirt-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.4/documentation-document-array_index_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-x86-make-indirect-calls-in-emulator-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.4/x86-nospec-fix-header-guards-names.patch
queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch
queue-4.4/vfs-fdtable-prevent-bounds-check-bypass-via-speculative-execution.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-invvpid-handling-improvements.patch
queue-4.4/x86-cpu-bugs-make-retpoline-module-warning-conditional.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch
queue-4.4/x86-implement-array_index_mask_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/array_index_nospec-sanitize-speculative-array-de-references.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-make-indirect-call-speculation-safe.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-fix-spelling-mistake-vunerable-vulnerable.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-fix-kernel-panics-induced-by-illegal-invept-invvpid-types.patch
queue-4.4/module-retpoline-warn-about-missing-retpoline-in-module.patch
queue-4.4/x86-kvm-update-spectre-v1-mitigation.patch
queue-4.4/x86-get_user-use-pointer-masking-to-limit-speculation.patch
queue-4.4/x86-syscall-sanitize-syscall-table-de-references-under-speculation.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt-can-t-fail.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch
queue-4.4/x86-speculation-fix-typo-ibrs_att-which-should-be-ibrs_all.patch
queue-4.4/x86-spectre-report-get_user-mitigation-for-spectre_v1.patch
queue-4.4/x86-introduce-barrier_nospec.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-async_pf-fix-df-due-to-inject-page-not-present-and-page-ready-exceptions-simultaneously.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-vmx-clean-up-declaration-of-vpid-ept-invalidation-types.patch
queue-4.4/x86-bugs-drop-one-mitigation-from-dmesg.patch
queue-4.4/x86-retpoline-remove-the-esp-rsp-thunk.patch
queue-4.4/nl80211-sanitize-array-index-in-parse_txq_params.patch
queue-4.4/kvm-nvmx-kmap-can-t-fail.patch