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Message-ID: <YcBTKJ08/7tjOBAu@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:55:52 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-stable] KVM: VMX: clear vmx_x86_ops.sync_pir_to_irr
if APICv is disabled
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:49:50AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> commit e90e51d5f01d2baae5dcce280866bbb96816e978 upstream.
>
> There is nothing to synchronize if APICv is disabled, since neither
> other vCPUs nor assigned devices can set PIR.ON.
>
> After the patch was committed to Linus's tree, it was observed that
> this fixes an issue with commit 7e1901f6c86c ("KVM: VMX: prepare
> sync_pir_to_irr for running with APICv disabled", backported to stable
> as e.g. commit 70a37e04c08a for the 5.15 tree). Without this patch,
> vmx_sync_pir_to_irr can be reached with enable_apicv == false, triggering
>
> if (KVM_BUG_ON(!enable_apicv, vcpu->kvm))
>
> Fixes: 7e1901f6c86c ("KVM: VMX: prepare sync_pir_to_irr for running with APICv disabled")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Looks like it is already queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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