Patch "KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
kvm-x86-fix-smi-to-halted-vcpu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:19:35 +0200
Subject: KVM: x86: fix SMI to halted VCPU

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

commit 73917739334c6509833b0403b81d4a04a8784bdf upstream.

An SMI to a halted VCPU must wake it up, hence a VCPU with a pending SMI must be considered runnable.

---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -8030,6 +8030,9 @@ static inline bool kvm_vcpu_has_events(s
 	if (atomic_read(&vcpu->arch.nmi_queued))
 		return true;
 
+	if (test_bit(KVM_REQ_SMI, &vcpu->requests))
+		return true;
+
 	if (kvm_arch_interrupt_allowed(vcpu) &&
 	    kvm_cpu_has_interrupt(vcpu))
 		return true;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/kvm-x86-fix-smi-to-halted-vcpu.patch queue-4.2/kvm-x86-clean-up-kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable.patch queue-4.2/kvm-x86-fix-rsm-into-64-bit-protected-mode.patch