From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.1] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix an sign-extension bug with mmu_seq that hangs vCPUs
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:46:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023082436-chaps-kinfolk-8588@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZOdfU1zQ4UCQNVpz@google.com>
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 06:46:59AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 06:01:04PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Note, upstream commit ba6e3fe25543 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Grab mmu_invalidate_seq
> > > in kvm_faultin_pfn()") unknowingly fixed the bug in v6.3 when refactoring
> > > how KVM tracks the sequence counter snapshot.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Brian Rak <brak@vultr.com>
> > > Reported-by: Amaan Cheval <amaan.cheval@gmail.com>
> > > Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <kvm@lists.ewheeler.net>
> > > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/f023d927-52aa-7e08-2ee5-59a2fbc65953@gameservers.com
> > > Fixes: a955cad84cda ("KVM: x86/mmu: Retry page fault if root is invalidated by memslot update")
> > > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> >
> > What is the git commit id of this change in Linus's tree?
>
> There is none. Commit ba6e3fe25543 (landed in v6.3) unknowingly fixed the bug as
> part of a completely unrelated refactoring.
Ah, missed that in the text here, thanks!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-24 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-24 1:01 [PATCH 6.1] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix an sign-extension bug with mmu_seq that hangs vCPUs Sean Christopherson
2023-08-24 6:53 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-08-24 13:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-08-24 14:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-08-26 16:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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