Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix struct guest_walker arrays for 5-level" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:44:51PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 08:14:31PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-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 f6ab0107a4942dbf9a5cf0cca3f37e184870a360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 09:37:42 -0800
> >Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix struct guest_walker arrays for 5-level
> >paging
> >
> >Define PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS as PT64_ROOT_MAX_LEVEL, i.e. 5, to fix shadow
> >paging for 5-level guest page tables.  PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS is used to
> >size the arrays that track guest pages table information, i.e. using a
> >"max levels" of 4 causes KVM to access garbage beyond the end of an
> >array when querying state for level 5 entries.  E.g. FNAME(gpte_changed)
> >will read garbage and most likely return %true for a level 5 entry,
> >soft-hanging the guest because FNAME(fetch) will restart the guest
> >instead of creating SPTEs because it thinks the guest PTE has changed.
> >
> >Note, KVM doesn't yet support 5-level nested EPT, so PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS
> >gets to stay "4" for the PTTYPE_EPT case.
> >
> >Fixes: 855feb673640 ("KVM: MMU: Add 5 level EPT & Shadow page table support.")
> >Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> File name is different in 5.4 and 4.19. Fixed and queued up for both.

Thanks!  Backporting the non-trivial conflicts is on my todo list,
unfortunately my todo list is rather long right now...



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