Re: [PATCH 0/5] KVM/ARM: Fixes for 4.12-rc1

[Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>]

Hi Marc,

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 02:30:36PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Here's a handful of random fixes I've queued locally that didn't have
> a chance to make it in 4.11.
> 
> The first two patches avoid stack-protector messing with the HYP code,
> as this ends up being a complete disaster.
> 
> The following two patches fix a bug introduced in the new vgic, where
> we may queue HW interrupts with the Pending+Active state, which is
> illegal.
> 
> The final patch fixes a misinterpretation of the spec, where we
> compute the number of APxRn register based on the number of priorities
> instead of using the number of preemption levels.
> 
> I've tagged the first 4 patches for stable, given that we're doing
> something potentially harmful. The last patch is more of a theoretical
> issue at this stage, so probably need for a backport.

I've applied these to kvmarm/master including the initial patches to
disable the stack-protecter for EL2/HYP.

Once you figure out what to do with -fpic/-fpie/-mcmodel=small we can
deal with that as follow-up patches.

Thanks,
-Christoffer