Cmt: [SRU][Xenial][PATCH v2 0/3] Fix corruption on blocked_vcpu_on_cpu list

William Breathitt Gray william.gray at canonical.com
Thu Jan 7 08:36:36 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 11:54:57PM +0000, Ioanna Alifieraki wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1908428
> 
> The following 3 patches fix the bug reported in [1].
> They are backported to apply on 4.4 kernels. 
> Backport is required becasue upstream commit 
> bc22512bb24c(kvm: vmx: rename vmx_pre/post_block to pi_pre/post_block)
> which renames  vmx_pre/post_block functions to pi_pre/post_block
> is missing from 4.4.
> Original patches come from [2] and have been accepted upstream.
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=149559827906211&w=2
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170606105707.23207-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/ 
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
>   KVM: VMX: extract __pi_post_block
>   KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d posted interrupts
>   KVM: VMX: simplify and fix vmx_vcpu_pi_load
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 87 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1

Upstream commit 
bc22512bb24c(kvm: vmx: rename vmx_pre/post_block to pi_pre/post_block)
looks pretty simple. If you pick that up first, then PATCH 1 and PATCH 2
can be cherry-picks right?

William Breathitt Gray
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