linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/kvm: revert commit 76b4f357d0e7d8f6f00

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Message-ID: <c4f051e2-2c85-d367-549a-d5ad34af7a13@suse.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Nov 2021 09:46:59 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/kvm: revert commit 76b4f357d0e7d8f6f00

On 08.11.21 21:15, Ben Gardon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:14 PM Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 7:51 AM Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Commit 76b4f357d0e7d8f6f00 ("x86/kvm: fix vcpu-id indexed array sizes")
>>> has wrong reasoning, as KVM_MAX_VCPU_ID is not defining the maximum
>>> allowed vcpu-id as its name suggests, but the number of vcpu-ids.
>>>
>>> So revert this patch again.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>>
>> The original commit 76b4f357d0e7d8f6f00 CC'ed Stable but this revert
>> does not. Looking at the stable branches, I see the original has been
>> reverted but this hasn't. Should this be added to Stable as well?
> 
> *the original has been incorporated into the stable branches but this hasn't.

Just yesterday I received mails that this patch has been added to the
stable branches.


Juergen

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