Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix consistency check on injected exception error" failed to apply to 5.3-stable tree

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On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 06:15:27PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:21:51AM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.3-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > > From 567926cca99ba1750be8aae9c4178796bf9bb90b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 09:21:23 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix consistency check on injected exception error
> > code
> > 
> > Current versions of Intel's SDM incorrectly state that "bits 31:15 of
> > the VM-Entry exception error-code field" must be zero.  In reality, bits
> > 31:16 must be zero, i.e. error codes are 16-bit values.
> > 
> > The bogus error code check manifests as an unexpected VM-Entry failure
> > due to an invalid code field (error number 7) in L1, e.g. when injecting
> > a #GP with error_code=0x9f00.
> > 
> > Nadav previously reported the bug[*], both to KVM and Intel, and fixed
> > the associated kvm-unit-test.
> > 
> > [*] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11124749/
> > 
> > Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There were minor conflicts due to missing tracepoint in 5.3 and code
> movement in 4.19. I've fixed it up.

Thanks for fixing these, and all of the other FAILED: issues.

thanks,

greg k-h



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