[PATCH 3.8 14/81] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix typo in saving DSCR

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Oct 29 18:03:35 UTC 2013


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

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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>

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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 10b6c35..7395db9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ 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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1.8.1.2





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