From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-fixes branch Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:01:56 +1000 Message-ID: <20170912040156.gply5xndvyyfmh5x@oak.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20170830062130.GD27329@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20170908143737.GA14748@flask> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:59465 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbdILECA (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:02:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 03:38:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/09/2017 16:37, Radim Krčmář wrote: > > 2017-08-30 16:21+1000, Paul Mackerras: > >> Paolo, > >> > >> Please do a pull from my kvm-ppc-fixes branch to get one more commit > >> for 4.13. It adds mutual exclusion between list_add_rcu and > >> list_del_rcu calls on the kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables list. Without > >> this, userspace could potentially trigger corruption of the list and > >> cause a host crash or worse. > > > > Both Paolo and I had a vacation the week before final 4.13, so I merged > > this for 3.14-rc1, sorry. > > Pi is always a nice source of typos. 8-) > I guess it needs to go in 4.13-stable too? Paul, can you forward it to > stable@vger.kernel.org and include the "Fixes" information (which, by > the way, should probably be almost always included in -rc patches)? Yes, I'll forward it and the previous patch in this area, with fixes tags. Paul. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 04:01:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-fixes branch Message-Id: <20170912040156.gply5xndvyyfmh5x@oak.ozlabs.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <20170830062130.GD27329@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20170908143737.GA14748@flask> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 03:38:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/09/2017 16:37, Radim Krčmář wrote: > > 2017-08-30 16:21+1000, Paul Mackerras: > >> Paolo, > >> > >> Please do a pull from my kvm-ppc-fixes branch to get one more commit > >> for 4.13. It adds mutual exclusion between list_add_rcu and > >> list_del_rcu calls on the kvm->arch.spapr_tce_tables list. Without > >> this, userspace could potentially trigger corruption of the list and > >> cause a host crash or worse. > > > > Both Paolo and I had a vacation the week before final 4.13, so I merged > > this for 3.14-rc1, sorry. > > Pi is always a nice source of typos. 8-) > I guess it needs to go in 4.13-stable too? Paul, can you forward it to > stable@vger.kernel.org and include the "Fixes" information (which, by > the way, should probably be almost always included in -rc patches)? Yes, I'll forward it and the previous patch in this area, with fixes tags. Paul.