[fix for patches applied in the wrong order to 4.1.y and 4.4.y --- the change is part of 70e4da7a8ff62f2775337b705f45c804bb450454, which is already in stable kernels 4.1.y to 4.4.y. this part of the fix however was later undone, so remove the line again] The following patches were applied in the wrong order in -stable. This is the order as they appear in Linus' tree, [0] commit 4e422bdd2f84 ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints") [1] commit 172b2386ed16 ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints") [2] commit 70e4da7a8ff6 ("KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints") but this is the order for linux-4.4.y [1] commit fc90441e728a ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints") [2] commit 25e8618619a5 ("KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints") [0] commit 0f6e5e26e68f ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints") The upshot is that KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD is always set when returning from kvm_arch_vcpu_load() in stable, but not in Linus' tree. This happened because [0] and [1] are the same patch. [0] and [1] come from two different merges, and the later merge is trivially resolved; when [2] is applied it reverts both of them. Instead, when using the [1][2][0] order, patches applies normally but "KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints" is present in the final tree. Cc: stable kernels <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.1, 4.4 Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 4244c2baf57d..f4891f2ece23 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -2752,7 +2752,6 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) } kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu); - vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs |= KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD; } void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) -- 2.7.4 -- 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