Re: Patch "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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On 07/03/2018 16:02, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:48:52PM +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> Den 07-03-2018 kl. 05:54, skrev gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>>
>>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>>
>>>      KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown
>>>
>>
>>
>> This one breaks build on 4.14 (and earlier I presume) as RET_PF_EMULATE was
>> introduced in v4.15-rc1~79^2~8.
> 
> Yeah, I just found that out :(
> 
>> To fix the build on 4.14 you would need:
>>
>> From 9b8ebbdb74b5ad76b9dfd8b101af17839174b126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:03:32 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: extend usage of RET_MMIO_PF_* constants
>>
>>
>> I haven't tested it on older kernels...
> 
> It doesn't apply on older kernels, so I'm having to drop the original
> patch here from 4.4.y and 4.9.y.  If someone wants them there, please
> provide working backports :)

Will do!

Paolo



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