This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Check for !irqchip_in_kernel() when mapping resources 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: arm-arm64-kvm-vgic-check-for-irqchip_in_kernel-when-mapping-resources.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 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c2f58514cfb374d5368c9da945f1765cd48eb0da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:53:57 +0100 Subject: arm/arm64: KVM: vgic: Check for !irqchip_in_kernel() when mapping resources From: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit c2f58514cfb374d5368c9da945f1765cd48eb0da upstream. Until b26e5fdac43c ("arm/arm64: KVM: introduce per-VM ops"), kvm_vgic_map_resources() used to include a check on irqchip_in_kernel(), and vgic_v2_map_resources() still has it. But now vm_ops are not initialized until we call kvm_vgic_create(). Therefore kvm_vgic_map_resources() can being called without a VGIC, and we die because vm_ops.map_resources is NULL. Fixing this restores QEMU's kernel-irqchip=off option to a working state, allowing to use GIC emulation in userspace. Fixes: b26e5fdac43c ("arm/arm64: KVM: introduce per-VM ops") Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@xxxxxxxxxxx> [maz: reworked commit message] Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_first_run_init(struc * Map the VGIC hardware resources before running a vcpu the first * time on this VM. */ - if (unlikely(!vgic_ready(kvm))) { + if (unlikely(irqchip_in_kernel(kvm) && !vgic_ready(kvm))) { ret = kvm_vgic_map_resources(kvm); if (ret) return ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from p.fedin@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/arm-arm64-kvm-vgic-check-for-irqchip_in_kernel-when-mapping-resources.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html