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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Sat, 5 Mar 2016 08:34:39 +0000 (19:34 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:42:20 +0000 (08:42 -0700)
commitef9dd54d0208f2bfb904f80a04bd963d10377b4e
treec30176b99b262ac8142722e6cf36657a1c69382c
parent2b9f49f3253666a47a18ad92772750563972ef2f
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit

commit ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c upstream.

Thomas Huth discovered that a guest could cause a hard hang of a
host CPU by setting the Instruction Authority Mask Register (IAMR)
to a suitable value.  It turns out that this is because when the
code was added to context-switch the new special-purpose registers
(SPRs) that were added in POWER8, we forgot to add code to ensure
that they were restored to a sane value on guest exit.

This adds code to set those registers where a bad value could
compromise the execution of the host kernel to a suitable neutral
value on guest exit.

Fixes: b005255e12a3
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S