linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Fix for a mostly benign gpc WARN

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 03:33:29 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzbot+106a4f72b0474e1d1b33@...kaller.appspotmail.com, Paul Durrant
	 <paul@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Fix for a mostly benign gpc WARN

On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 16:21 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-03-19 at 17:15 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Fix a bug found by syzkaller, thanks to a new WARN sanity check, where KVM
> > > marks a gfn_to_pfn_cache as active without actually setting gpc->gpa or any
> > > other metadata.  On top, harden against _directly_ setting gpc->gpa to KVM's
> > > magic INVALID_GPA, which would also fail the sanity check.
> > > 
> > > Sean Christopherson (3):
> > >   KVM: Add helpers to consolidate gfn_to_pfn_cache's page split check
> > >   KVM: Check validity of offset+length of gfn_to_pfn_cache prior to
> > >     activation
> > >   KVM: Explicitly disallow activatating a gfn_to_pfn_cache with
> > >     INVALID_GPA
> > 
> > It looks like these conflict with
> > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240227115648.3104-9-dwmw2@infradead.org/
> > 
> > Want to arrange them to come after it?
> 
> Very belated, yes.  Though by the time you read this, they should be in
> kvm-x86/next.

Did that 'yes' mean 'no'? Because your three patches are in, but you
didn't arrange them to come after my 'clean up rwlock abuse' patch, as
you seemed to be saying 'yes' to...

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