[PATCH v3 0/2] kvm: arm/arm64: Fixes for race conditions

Christoffer Dall cdall at linaro.org
Tue May 16 06:29:04 PDT 2017


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:01:54AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 16/05/17 10:53, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> >On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:34:53AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> >>The patches fixes race conditions in stage2 pgd accesses.
> >>
> >>Patch 1 is a fix up for the patch which has already been pushed to
> >>kvmarm/master.
> >>
> >>Patch 2 fixes a case where stage2 PGD could be free'd when we release
> >>the kvm->mmu_lock to prevent VCPU starvation.
> >>
> >>Applies on kvmarm/master tree
> >
> >Thanks for the rebase and fix.
> >
> >Applied to master, and for both patches::
> >
> >Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
> >
> 
> Thanks, I think these fixes needs to go to stable as well. I will wait for
> these to hit mainline and then send a back port.

Agreed, I already added the cc to stable when applying them, so I think
you'll see the report from the stable folks for the parts that don't
apply and can do the backport then.

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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