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* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] hv: don't reset hv_context.tsc_page on crash" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
@ 2017-03-10  7:56 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2017-03-10  7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: vkuznets, gregkh, kys, stable; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 56ef6718a1d8d77745033c5291e025ce18504159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 01:16:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] hv: don't reset hv_context.tsc_page on crash

It may happen that secondary CPUs are still alive and resetting
hv_context.tsc_page will cause a consequent crash in read_hv_clock_tsc()
as we don't check for it being not NULL there. It is safe as we're not
freeing this page anyways.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv.c b/drivers/hv/hv.c
index 13937563c9db..fbd8ce6d7ff3 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv.c
@@ -309,9 +309,10 @@ void hv_cleanup(bool crash)
 
 		hypercall_msr.as_uint64 = 0;
 		wrmsrl(HV_X64_MSR_REFERENCE_TSC, hypercall_msr.as_uint64);
-		if (!crash)
+		if (!crash) {
 			vfree(hv_context.tsc_page);
-		hv_context.tsc_page = NULL;
+			hv_context.tsc_page = NULL;
+		}
 	}
 #endif
 }

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