This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure

to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xen-gnttab-leave-lazy-mmu-mode-in-the-case-of-a-m2p-override-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 14883a75ec76b44759385fb12629f4a0f1aef4e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Wilson <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:11:35 -0800
Subject: xen/gnttab: leave lazy MMU mode in the case of a m2p override failure

From: Matt Wilson <[email protected]>

commit 14883a75ec76b44759385fb12629f4a0f1aef4e3 upstream.

Commit f62805f1 introduced a bug where lazy MMU mode isn't exited if a
m2p_add/remove_override call fails.

Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/xen/grant-table.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/grant-table.c
@@ -921,9 +921,10 @@ int gnttab_map_refs(struct gnttab_map_gr
                ret = m2p_add_override(mfn, pages[i], kmap_ops ?
                                       &kmap_ops[i] : NULL);
                if (ret)
-                       return ret;
+                       goto out;
        }
 
+ out:
        if (lazy)
                arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
 
@@ -954,9 +955,10 @@ int gnttab_unmap_refs(struct gnttab_unma
                ret = m2p_remove_override(pages[i], kmap_ops ?
                                       &kmap_ops[i] : NULL);
                if (ret)
-                       return ret;
+                       goto out;
        }
 
+ out:
        if (lazy)
                arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.12/xen-gnttab-leave-lazy-mmu-mode-in-the-case-of-a-m2p-override-failure.patch
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