Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: preserve pending TLB flush across calls to kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:25:50PM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Right now, if a call to kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp returns false, the caller
> will skip the TLB flush, which is wrong.  There are two ways to fix
> it:
> 
> - since kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp will not yield and therefore will not flush
>   the TLB itself, we could change the call to kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp to
>   use "flush |= ..."
> 
> - or we can chain the flush argument through kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_sp down
>   to __kvm_tdp_mmu_zap_gfn_range.
> 
> This patch does the former to simplify application to stable kernels.
> 
> Cc: seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 048f49809c526 ("KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure TLBs are flushed for TDP MMU during NX zapping")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.10.x: 048f49809c: KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure TLBs are flushed for TDP MMU during NX zapping
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.10.x: 33a3164161: KVM: x86/mmu: Don't allow TDP MMU to yield when recovering NX pages
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Is this for only the stable kernels, or is it addressed toward upstream
merges?

Confused,

greg k-h