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[3.16.y-ckt,stable] Patch "kvm: commonize allocation of the new memory slots" has been added to staging queue

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Luis Henriques April 21, 2015, 3:24 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    kvm: commonize allocation of the new memory slots

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 4df75f70e3d1cd5b0c3c9a8c1f788ad07fb0da50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:46:45 +0100
Subject: kvm: commonize allocation of the new memory slots

commit f2a81036516e2b97c07c49dd6d51d36bfa43593d upstream.

The two kmemdup invocations can be unified.  I find that the new
placement of the comment makes it easier to see what happens.

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 28 +++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7e76ce9254e2..840b6ced58bb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -858,11 +858,12 @@  int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 			goto out_free;
 	}

+	slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
+			GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!slots)
+		goto out_free;
+
 	if ((change == KVM_MR_DELETE) || (change == KVM_MR_MOVE)) {
-		slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
-				GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!slots)
-			goto out_free;
 		slot = id_to_memslot(slots, mem->slot);
 		slot->flags |= KVM_MEMSLOT_INVALID;

@@ -878,6 +879,12 @@  int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 		 * 	- kvm_is_visible_gfn (mmu_check_roots)
 		 */
 		kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(kvm, slot);
+
+		/*
+		 * We can re-use the old_memslots from above, the only difference
+		 * from the currently installed memslots is the invalid flag.  This
+		 * will get overwritten by update_memslots anyway.
+		 */
 		slots = old_memslots;
 	}

@@ -885,19 +892,6 @@  int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
 	if (r)
 		goto out_slots;

-	r = -ENOMEM;
-	/*
-	 * We can re-use the old_memslots from above, the only difference
-	 * from the currently installed memslots is the invalid flag.  This
-	 * will get overwritten by update_memslots anyway.
-	 */
-	if (!slots) {
-		slots = kmemdup(kvm->memslots, sizeof(struct kvm_memslots),
-				GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!slots)
-			goto out_free;
-	}
-
 	/* actual memory is freed via old in kvm_free_physmem_slot below */
 	if (change == KVM_MR_DELETE) {
 		new.dirty_bitmap = NULL;