linux-kernel - [3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure" has been added to staging queue

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Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:40:59 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	Matt Wilson <msw@...zon.com>
Cc:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Subject: [3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure" has been added to staging queue

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 2dd09d40574a72d3dc150e56e5c4592857b4c070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Wilson <msw@...zon.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:11:35 -0800
Subject: xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure

commit 14883a75ec76b44759385fb12629f4a0f1aef4e3 upstream.

Commit f62805f1 introduced a bug where lazy MMU mode isn't exited if a
m2p_add/remove_override call fails.

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>
Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@...zon.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/xen/grant-table.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
index c4d2298..255e828 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
@@ -921,9 +921,10 @@ int gnttab_map_refs(struct gnttab_map_grant_ref *map_ops,
 		ret = m2p_add_override(mfn, pages[i], kmap_ops ?
 				       &kmap_ops[i] : NULL);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 	}

+ out:
 	if (lazy)
 		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();

@@ -954,9 +955,10 @@ int gnttab_unmap_refs(struct gnttab_unmap_grant_ref *unmap_ops,
 		ret = m2p_remove_override(pages[i], kmap_ops ?
 				       &kmap_ops[i] : NULL);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 	}

+ out:
 	if (lazy)
 		arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();

--
1.8.3.2

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