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Revision ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c authored by Paul Mackerras on 05 March 2016, 08:34:39 UTC, committed by Paul Mackerras on 08 March 2016, 02:36:42 UTC 
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit
 
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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
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>
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Tip revision: ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c authored by Paul Mackerras on 05 March 2016, 08:34:39 UTC
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit
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