Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

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Hi Greg,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:49:44AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

Here is the backport, will apply to all branches till 4.4-stable.

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Regards
Sudip

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From 6a75cb89e3e75fa825fdf866ea9c0632423f3f6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:41:18 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: check tlbs_dirty directly

commit 88bf56d04bc3564542049ec4ec168a8b60d0b48c upstream

In kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(), tlbs_dirty is used as:
        need_tlb_flush |= kvm->tlbs_dirty;
with need_tlb_flush's type being int and tlbs_dirty's type being long.

It means that tlbs_dirty is always used as int and the higher 32 bits
is useless.  We need to check tlbs_dirty in a correct way and this
change checks it directly without propagating it to need_tlb_flush.

Note: it's _extremely_ unlikely this neglecting of higher 32 bits can
cause problems in practice.  It would require encountering tlbs_dirty
on a 4 billion count boundary, and KVM would need to be using shadow
paging or be running a nested guest.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a4ee1ca4a36e ("KVM: MMU: delay flush all tlbs on sync_page path")
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Message-Id: <20201217154118.16497-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[sudip: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index c1ca4d40157b..547ae59199db 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -382,9 +382,8 @@ static void kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier *mn,
 	 */
 	kvm->mmu_notifier_count++;
 	need_tlb_flush = kvm_unmap_hva_range(kvm, start, end);
-	need_tlb_flush |= kvm->tlbs_dirty;
 	/* we've to flush the tlb before the pages can be freed */
-	if (need_tlb_flush)
+	if (need_tlb_flush || kvm->tlbs_dirty)
 		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
 
 	spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
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2.30.0