From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-fixes branch Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:38:31 +0200 Message-ID: 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: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Paul Mackerras Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58654 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757515AbdIINie (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 09:38:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170908143737.GA14748@flask> Content-Language: en-US Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. 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)? Thanks, Paolo From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 13:38:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-fixes branch Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20170830062130.GD27329@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20170908143737.GA14748@flask> In-Reply-To: <20170908143737.GA14748@flask> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Paul Mackerras Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org 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. 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)? Thanks, Paolo