Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add non-canonical check on writes to RTIT address" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

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On Sun, 2020-02-09 at 15:12 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 01:31:58PM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-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 fe6ed369fca98e99df55c932b85782a5687526b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:24:32 -0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add non-canonical check on writes to RTIT address
> > MSRs
> > 
> > Reject writes to RTIT address MSRs if the data being written is a
> > non-canonical address as the MSRs are subject to canonical checks, e.g.
> > KVM will trigger an unchecked #GP when loading the values to hardware
> > during pt_guest_enter().
> > 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> File/code movement. Cleaned up and queued for 4.19-4.4.

I don't know what happened here, but you've ended up adding the
entirety of arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c on all those branches rather than
applying the change to the right file.

Ben.

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