Patch "kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD
to the 4.11-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-arm-arm64-force-reading-uncached-stage2-pgd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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2952a6070e07ebdd5896f1f5b861acad677cadedMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:34:54 +0100
Subject: kvm: arm/arm64: Force reading uncached stage2 PGD
From: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>
commit 2952a6070e07ebdd5896f1f5b861acad677caded upstream.
Make sure we don't use a cached value of the KVM stage2 PGD while resetting the PGD.
--- arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c +1 -1
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ void kvm_free_stage2_pgd(struct kvm *kvmspin_lock (&kvm->mmu_lock);if (kvm->arch.pgd) {unmap_stage2_range (kvm,0 ,KVM_PHYS_SIZE ); - pgd = kvm->arch.pgd; + pgd =READ_ONCE (kvm->arch.pgd); kvm->arch.pgd =NULL ; }spin_unlock (&kvm->mmu_lock);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.11/kvm-arm-arm64-force-reading-uncached-stage2-pgd.patch queue-4.11/kvm-arm-arm64-fix-race-in-resetting-stage2-pgd.patch queue-4.11/kvm-arm-arm64-fix-use-after-free-of-stage2-page-table.patch