Re: [PATCH] kvm: apply VM_READ/VM_WRITE checks to all VMA types
Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel |
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > But the issue Sashiko reported is just saying that KVM sometimes does what I'm > > > > saying KVM should do all the time: return -EFAULT. Or did I misunderstand that > > > > one too? :-) > > > > > > Yes, that's correct. My point is I'd rather not introduce other changes to > > > the !VM_WRITE case in stable releases. > > > > Yeah, agreed. But what I don't understand is why this would be sent to stable@ > > in the first place. > > Because the patch > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/T/ > needs to be sent to stable@, and this one fixes a problem in that > other patch. So this one needs to come first. Oooh, that makes sense. Thanks for being patient.