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[PATCH 4.4 09/50] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit

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4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

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 |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -1370,6 +1370,20 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
 	std	r6, VCPU_ACOP(r9)
 	stw	r7, VCPU_GUEST_PID(r9)
 	std	r8, VCPU_WORT(r9)
+	/*
+	 * Restore various registers to 0, where non-zero values
+	 * set by the guest could disrupt the host.
+	 */
+	li	r0, 0
+	mtspr	SPRN_IAMR, r0
+	mtspr	SPRN_CIABR, r0
+	mtspr	SPRN_DAWRX, r0
+	mtspr	SPRN_TCSCR, r0
+	mtspr	SPRN_WORT, r0
+	/* Set MMCRS to 1<<31 to freeze and disable the SPMC counters */
+	li	r0, 1
+	sldi	r0, r0, 31
+	mtspr	SPRN_MMCRS, r0
 8:
 
 	/* Save and reset AMR and UAMOR before turning on the MMU */

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[PATCH 4.4 09/50] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:00 +0100

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