Patch "KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Allow access to unprivileged MMCR2 register" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Allow access to unprivileged MMCR2 register

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-ppc-book3s-pr-allow-access-to-unprivileged-mmcr2-register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From fa73c3b25bd8d0d393dc6109a1dba3c2aef0451e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:06:45 +0200
Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Allow access to unprivileged MMCR2 register

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

commit fa73c3b25bd8d0d393dc6109a1dba3c2aef0451e upstream.

The MMCR2 register is available twice, one time with number 785
(privileged access), and one time with number 769 (unprivileged,
but it can be disabled completely). In former times, the Linux
kernel was using the unprivileged register 769 only, but since
commit 8dd75ccb571f3c92c ("powerpc: Use privileged SPR number
for MMCR2"), it uses the privileged register 785 instead.
The KVM-PR code then of course also switched to use the SPR 785,
but this is causing older guest kernels to crash, since these
kernels still access 769 instead. So to support older kernels
with KVM-PR again, we have to support register 769 in KVM-PR, too.

Fixes: 8dd75ccb571f3c92c48014b3dabd3d51a115ab41
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h    |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
@@ -708,6 +708,7 @@
 #define   MMCR0_FCHV	0x00000001UL /* freeze conditions in hypervisor mode */
 #define SPRN_MMCR1	798
 #define SPRN_MMCR2	785
+#define SPRN_UMMCR2	769
 #define SPRN_MMCRA	0x312
 #define   MMCRA_SDSYNC	0x80000000UL /* SDAR synced with SIAR */
 #define   MMCRA_SDAR_DCACHE_MISS 0x40000000UL
--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_emulate.c
@@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_mtspr_pr(struct
 	case SPRN_MMCR0:
 	case SPRN_MMCR1:
 	case SPRN_MMCR2:
+	case SPRN_UMMCR2:
 #endif
 		break;
 unprivileged:
@@ -640,6 +641,7 @@ int kvmppc_core_emulate_mfspr_pr(struct
 	case SPRN_MMCR0:
 	case SPRN_MMCR1:
 	case SPRN_MMCR2:
+	case SPRN_UMMCR2:
 	case SPRN_TIR:
 #endif
 		*spr_val = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thuth@redhat.com are

queue-4.4/kvm-ppc-book3s-pr-allow-access-to-unprivileged-mmcr2-register.patch