Re: [PATCH] kvm: apply VM_READ/VM_WRITE checks to all VMA types
From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 03:53:52 EST
On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> 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/20260731160514.1101989-1-pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
needs to be sent to stable@, and this one fixes a problem in that
other patch. So this one needs to come first.
Paolo