From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@redhat.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 12/47] KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:18:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89a2c659-54d6-59ae-826e-c742efdb784b@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34df16e4-06a1-3343-2fd9-5004ec5f5fa1@redhat.com>
On 26.02.21 15:15, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/02/21 13:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> So can you please add this patch to the stable trees that backported the
>>>> problematic upstream commit 6441fa6178f5456d1d4b512c08798888f99db185 ?
>>>>
>>>> If I should submit this in any other way just ask, was not sure about
>>>> what works best with a patch which cannot be cherry-picked cleanly.
>>>
>>> Ok, I'll submit it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the testing.
>>
>> Does that mean I should not take the patch here in this email and that
>> you will submit it after some timeperiod, or that I should take this
>> patch as-is?
>
> The patch that Thomas requested (commit 841c2be09fe) does not apply cleanly, so I'll take care of sending the backport.
>
Note that the patch I added inline in my initial mail here was already
adapted to apply cleanly, at least on stable-5.4.y
May not have made that clear enough, so mentioning it here - ignore me this
message if that was read and thought of.
cheers,
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 14:19 UTC|newest]
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2021-01-04 15:56 [PATCH 5.4 00/47] 5.4.87-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 01/47] net/sched: sch_taprio: reset child qdiscs before freeing them Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 02/47] md/raid10: initialize r10_bio->read_slot before use Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 03/47] thermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Update cpufreq_state only if state has changed Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 04/47] ext4: prevent creating duplicate encrypted filenames Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 05/47] ubifs: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 06/47] f2fs: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 07/47] fscrypt: add fscrypt_is_nokey_name() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 08/47] fscrypt: remove kernel-internal constants from UAPI header Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 09/47] vfio/pci: Move dummy_resources_list init in vfio_pci_probe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 10/47] btrfs: fix race when defragmenting leads to unnecessary IO Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 11/47] ext4: dont remount read-only with errors=continue on reboot Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 12/47] KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-26 11:03 ` Thomas Lamprecht
2021-02-26 11:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-26 12:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-02-26 14:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-26 14:18 ` Thomas Lamprecht [this message]
2021-02-26 14:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 13/47] KVM: SVM: relax conditions for allowing MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL accesses Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 14/47] KVM: x86: reinstate vendor-agnostic check on SPEC_CTRL cpuid bits Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 15/47] powerpc/bitops: Fix possible undefined behaviour with fls() and fls64() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 16/47] jffs2: Allow setting rp_size to zero during remounting Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 17/47] jffs2: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rp_size fs option parsing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 18/47] scsi: block: Fix a race in the runtime power management code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 19/47] uapi: move constants from <linux/kernel.h> to <linux/const.h> Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 20/47] tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/const.h with the kernel headers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 21/47] null_blk: Fix zone size initialization Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 22/47] of: fix linker-section match-table corruption Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 23/47] cgroup: Fix memory leak when parsing multiple source parameters Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 24/47] scsi: cxgb4i: Fix TLS dependency Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 25/47] Bluetooth: hci_h5: close serdev device and free hu in h5_close Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 26/47] reiserfs: add check for an invalid ih_entry_count Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 27/47] misc: vmw_vmci: fix kernel info-leak by initializing dbells in vmci_ctx_get_chkpt_doorbells() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 28/47] media: gp8psk: initialize stats at power control logic Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 29/47] f2fs: fix shift-out-of-bounds in sanity_check_raw_super() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 30/47] ALSA: seq: Use bool for snd_seq_queue internal flags Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 31/47] ALSA: rawmidi: Access runtime->avail always in spinlock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 32/47] bfs: dont use WARNING: string when its just info Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 33/47] fcntl: Fix potential deadlock in send_sig{io, urg}() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 34/47] rtc: sun6i: Fix memleak in sun6i_rtc_clk_init Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-06 13:07 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 35/47] module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 36/47] quota: Dont overflow quota file offsets Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 37/47] rtc: pl031: fix resource leak in pl031_probe Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 38/47] powerpc: sysdev: add missing iounmap() on error in mpic_msgr_probe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 39/47] i3c master: fix missing destroy_workqueue() on error in i3c_master_register Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 40/47] NFSv4: Fix a pNFS layout related use-after-free race when freeing the inode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 41/47] f2fs: avoid race condition for shrinker count Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 42/47] module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 43/47] fs/namespace.c: WARN if mnt_count has become negative Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 44/47] um: ubd: Submit all data segments atomically Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 45/47] tick/sched: Remove bogus boot "safety" check Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 46/47] ALSA: pcm: Clear the full allocated memory at hw_params Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-04 15:57 ` [PATCH 5.4 47/47] dm verity: skip verity work if I/O error when system is shutting down Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-05 6:07 ` [PATCH 5.4 00/47] 5.4.87-rc1 review Daniel Díaz
2021-01-05 16:39 ` Shuah Khan
2021-01-05 18:17 ` Guenter Roeck
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