This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: x86: Forbid VMM to set SYNIC/STIMER MSRs when SynIC wasn't activated 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-forbid-vmm-to-set-synic-stimer-msrs-when-synic-wasn-t-activated.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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.