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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2016-03-05 19:34:39 +1100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-03-16 08:42:20 -0700
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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>
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