On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:01:36AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 04:22:40PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > >The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
...
> > >Reported-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Analyzed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
> > >Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I also took e7912386ede8 ("KVM: x86: reintroduce pte_list_remove, but
> > including mmu_spte_clear_track_bits") and queued both for 4.19-4.9.
>
> I don't think that will work, you'd also have to pull in commit 8daf346226b2
> ("KVM: x86: rename pte_list_remove to __pte_list_remove"). And e7912386ede8
> in particular isn't stable material.
>
> I'll send a proper backport for 4.19 and earlier, the conflicts should be
> easy to resolve.
I have a silly backporting question regarding SOBs. Should I add a second
SOB for myself, reorder the SOBs, or leave it as is? E.g. (A) is the most
correct from a chronological handling perspective, but having two SOBs
feels weird.
Option A:
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[sean: backport to 4.x; resolve conflict in mmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Option B:
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[sean: backport to 4.x; resolve conflict in mmu.c]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Option C:
Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
