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Commit c518a1b3 authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Sasha Levin
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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit



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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: b005255e
Reported-by: default avatarThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
parent 05ec9a3e
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