Re: Patch "KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not use Active+Pending state for a HW interrupt" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 04:48:26PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not use Active+Pending state for a HW interrupt
> 
> to the 4.9-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-arm-arm64-vgic-v2-do-not-use-active-pending-state-for-a-hw-interrupt.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 ddf42d068f8802de122bb7efdfcb3179336053f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:30:39 +0100
> Subject: KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-v2: Do not use Active+Pending state for a HW interrupt
> 
> From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> 
> commit ddf42d068f8802de122bb7efdfcb3179336053f1 upstream.
> 
> When an interrupt is injected with the HW bit set (indicating that
> deactivation should be propagated to the physical distributor),
> special care must be taken so that we never mark the corresponding
> LR with the Active+Pending state (as the pending state is kept in
> the physycal distributor).
> 
> Fixes: 140b086dd197 ("KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add GICv2 world switch backend")
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-v2.c
> @@ -168,6 +168,13 @@ void vgic_v2_populate_lr(struct kvm_vcpu
>  	if (irq->hw) {
>  		val |= GICH_LR_HW;
>  		val |= irq->hwintid << GICH_LR_PHYSID_CPUID_SHIFT;
> +		/*
> +		 * Never set pending+active on a HW interrupt, as the
> +		 * pending state is kept at the physical distributor
> +		 * level.
> +		 */
> +		if (irq->active && irq_is_pending(irq))

Same irq_is_pending() problem here for 4.9 as well, now dropped.

thanks,

greg k-h