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Patch "KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic

to the 4.14-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-vcpu-initialization-with-userspace-lapic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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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From b7e31be385584afe7f073130e8e570d53c95f7fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Radim=20Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99?= <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:24:25 +0100
Subject: KVM: x86: fix vcpu initialization with userspace lapic
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From: Radim Krčmář <[email protected]>

commit b7e31be385584afe7f073130e8e570d53c95f7fe upstream.

Moving the code around broke this rare configuration. Use this opportunity to finally call lapic reset from vcpu reset.

Reported-by [email protected]
Fixes 0b2e9904c159 ("KVM: x86: move LAPIC initialization after VMCS creation")
---
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c |   10 ++++------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c +4 -6
@@ -1944,14 +1944,13 @@ void kvm_lapic_set_base(struct kvm_vcpu
 
 void kvm_lapic_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)
 {
-	struct kvm_lapic *apic;
+	struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
 	int i;
 
-	apic_debug("%s\n", __func__);
+	if (!apic)
+		return;
 
-	ASSERT(vcpu);
-	apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
-	ASSERT(apic != NULL);
+	apic_debug("%s\n", __func__);
 
 	/* Stop the timer in case it's a reset to an active apic */
 	hrtimer_cancel(&apic->lapic_timer.timer);
@@ -2510,7 +2509,6 @@ void kvm_apic_accept_events(struct kvm_v
 
 	pe = xchg(&apic->pending_events, 0);
 	if (test_bit(KVM_APIC_INIT, &pe)) {
-		kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, true);
 		kvm_vcpu_reset(vcpu, true);
 		if (kvm_vcpu_is_bsp(apic->vcpu))
 			vcpu->arch.mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE;
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +2 -1
@@ -7779,7 +7779,6 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_setup(struct kvm_vcpu
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 	kvm_vcpu_reset(vcpu, false);
-	kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, false);
 	kvm_mmu_setup(vcpu);
 	vcpu_put(vcpu);
 	return r;
@@ -7822,6 +7821,8 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vc
 
 void kvm_vcpu_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool init_event)
 {
+	kvm_lapic_reset(vcpu, init_event);
+
 	vcpu->arch.hflags = 0;
 
 	vcpu->arch.smi_pending = 0;

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

queue-4.14/kvm-x86-fix-smram-accessing-even-if-vm-is-shutdown.patch queue-4.14/kvm-x86-remove-indirect-msr-op-calls-from-spec_ctrl.patch queue-4.14/kvm-mmu-fix-overlap-between-public-and-private-memslots.patch queue-4.14/kvm-x86-fix-vcpu-initialization-with-userspace-lapic.patch queue-4.14/kvm-vmx-optimize-vmx_vcpu_run-and-svm_vcpu_run-by-marking-the-rdmsr-path-as-unlikely.patch