From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EBCC433E0 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F72964D9F for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229745AbhBZOTd (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:19:33 -0500 Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com ([212.186.127.180]:24894 "EHLO proxmox-new.maurer-it.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229556AbhBZOT2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 09:19:28 -0500 Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C230541CA8; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:18:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <89a2c659-54d6-59ae-826e-c742efdb784b@proxmox.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:18:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/86.0 Content-Language: en-US To: Paolo Bonzini , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson , Sasha Levin References: <20210104155705.740576914@linuxfoundation.org> <20210104155706.339275609@linuxfoundation.org> <85e3f488-4ec5-2ad3-26a6-097d532824e1@proxmox.com> <4fa31425-3c13-0a4f-167b-6566c6302334@redhat.com> <34df16e4-06a1-3343-2fd9-5004ec5f5fa1@redhat.com> From: Thomas Lamprecht Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4 12/47] KVM: x86: avoid incorrect writes to host MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL In-Reply-To: <34df16e4-06a1-3343-2fd9-5004ec5f5fa1@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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