Patch "KVM: s390: reject invalid modes for runtime instrumentation" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    KVM: s390: reject invalid modes for runtime instrumentation

to the 4.8-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-s390-reject-invalid-modes-for-runtime-instrumentation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 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 a5efb6b6c99a3a6dc4330f51d8066f638bdea0ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:18:47 +0200
Subject: KVM: s390: reject invalid modes for runtime instrumentation

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

commit a5efb6b6c99a3a6dc4330f51d8066f638bdea0ac upstream.

Usually a validity intercept is a programming error of the host
because of invalid entries in the state description.
We can get a validity intercept if the mode of the runtime
instrumentation control block is wrong. As the host does not know
which modes are valid, this can be used by userspace to trigger
a WARN.
Instead of printing a WARN let's return an error to userspace as
this can only happen if userspace provides a malformed initial
value (e.g. on migration). The kernel should never warn on bogus
input. Instead let's log it into the s390 debug feature.

While at it, let's return -EINVAL for all validity intercepts as
this will trigger an error in QEMU like

error: kvm run failed Invalid argument
PSW=mask 0404c00180000000 addr 000000000063c226 cc 00
R00=000000000000004f R01=0000000000000004 R02=0000000000760005 R03=000000007fe0a000
R04=000000000064ba2a R05=000000049db73dd0 R06=000000000082c4b0 R07=0000000000000041
R08=0000000000000002 R09=000003e0804042a8 R10=0000000496152c42 R11=000000007fe0afb0
[...]

This will avoid an endless loop of validity intercepts.

Fixes: c6e5f166373a ("KVM: s390: implement the RI support of guest")
Acked-by: Fan Zhang <zhangfan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/intercept.c
@@ -118,8 +118,13 @@ static int handle_validity(struct kvm_vc
 
 	vcpu->stat.exit_validity++;
 	trace_kvm_s390_intercept_validity(vcpu, viwhy);
-	WARN_ONCE(true, "kvm: unhandled validity intercept 0x%x\n", viwhy);
-	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	KVM_EVENT(3, "validity intercept 0x%x for pid %u (kvm 0x%pK)", viwhy,
+		  current->pid, vcpu->kvm);
+
+	/* do not warn on invalid runtime instrumentation mode */
+	WARN_ONCE(viwhy != 0x44, "kvm: unhandled validity intercept 0x%x\n",
+		  viwhy);
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static int handle_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from borntraeger@de.ibm.com are

queue-4.8/kvm-s390-reject-invalid-modes-for-runtime-instrumentation.patch