Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Issue WBINVD after deactivating an SEV guest

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Sat Mar 21 2020 - 13:07:03 EST


On 21/03/20 13:16, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I have had to go around and clean up after maintainers who don't
>> seem to realize this, but for KVM patches I have been explicitly told to
>> NOT take any patch unless it has a cc: stable on it, due to issues that
>> have happened in the past.
>>
>> So for this subsystem, what you suggested guaranteed it would NOT get
>> picked up, please do not do that.
>
> Thanks for clarifying that, Greg.
>
> Then, yes, it should have the Cc: to stable that David mentioned. If it
> gets applied without that, I'll follow the process to send an email to
> stable to get it included in 5.5-stable.

No, don't worry, I do add the stable tags myself based on the Fixes tags.

Paolo