Patch "KVM: x86: fix missed SRCU usage in kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

KVM: x86: fix missed SRCU usage in kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr

to the 4.8-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-missed-srcu-usage-in-kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:55:46 +0100
Subject: KVM: x86: fix missed SRCU usage in kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr
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From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

commit 7301d6abaea926d685832f7e1f0c37dd206b01f4 upstream.

Reported by syzkaller:

    [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
    4.9.0-rc4+ #47 Not tainted
    -------------------------------
    ./include/linux/kvm_host.h:536 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

    stack backtrace:
    CPU: 1 PID: 6679 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.9.0-rc4+ #47
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
     ffff880039e2f6d0 ffffffff81c2e46b ffff88003e3a5b40 0000000000000000
     0000000000000001 ffffffff83215600 ffff880039e2f700 ffffffff81334ea9
     ffffc9000730b000 0000000000000004 ffff88003c4f8420 ffff88003d3f8000
    Call Trace:
     [<     inline     >] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15
     [<ffffffff81c2e46b>] dump_stack+0xb3/0x118 lib/dump_stack.c:51
     [<ffffffff81334ea9>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x139/0x180 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4445
     [<     inline     >] __kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:534
     [<     inline     >] kvm_memslots include/linux/kvm_host.h:541
     [<ffffffff8105d6ae>] kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init+0xa1e/0xce0 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1941
     [<ffffffff8112685d>] kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr+0xed/0x140 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:2217

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

@@ -3372,6 +3372,7 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *fi
 	};
 	case KVM_SET_VAPIC_ADDR: {
 		struct kvm_vapic_addr va;
+		int idx;
 
 		r = -EINVAL;
 		if (!lapic_in_kernel(vcpu))

@@ -3379,7 +3380,9 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *fi
 		r = -EFAULT;
 		if (copy_from_user(&va, argp, sizeof va))
 			goto out;
+		idx = srcu_read_lock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu);
 		r = kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr(vcpu, va.vapic_addr);
+		srcu_read_unlock(&vcpu->kvm->srcu, idx);
 		break;
 	}
 	case KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE: {

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

queue-4.8/kvm-x86-fix-missed-srcu-usage-in-kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr.patch queue-4.8/kvm-disable-irq-while-unregistering-user-notifier.patch