[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4e22543a4dc14bce002c7aa36eb8f41ef18aef95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:53:28 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR

commit cfc860253abd73e1681696c08ea268d33285a2c4 upstream.

This fixes a typo in the code that saves the guest DSCR (Data Stream
Control Register) into the kvm_vcpu_arch struct on guest exit.  The
effect of the typo was that the DSCR value was saved in the wrong place,
so changes to the DSCR by the guest didn't persist across guest exit
and entry, and some host kernel memory got corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
index a1044f4..86af817 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
 BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	mfspr	r8, SPRN_DSCR
 	ld	r7, HSTATE_DSCR(r13)
-	std	r8, VCPU_DSCR(r7)
+	std	r8, VCPU_DSCR(r9)
 	mtspr	SPRN_DSCR, r7
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)

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