Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Sanitize special-purpose register values on guest exit

[David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>]

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:12:30 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org> wrote:

> Thomas Huth discovered that a guest could cause a hard hang of a
> host CPU by setting the Instruction Authority Mask Register (IAMR)
> to a suitable value.  It turns out that this is because when the
> code was added to context-switch the new special-purpose registers
> (SPRs) that were added in POWER8, we forgot to add code to ensure
> that they were restored to a sane value on guest exit.
> 
> This adds code to set the those registers where a bad value could
> compromise the execution of the host kernel to a suitable neutral
> value on guest exit.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.14+
> Fixes: b73117c49364
> Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
> Paolo, since this fixes a bug where a guest can cause a hard hang
> of a host CPU, I'd like it to go in 4.5 if possible.
> 
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index ed16182..752e915 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -1370,6 +1370,20 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
>  	std	r6, VCPU_ACOP(r9)
>  	stw	r7, VCPU_GUEST_PID(r9)
>  	std	r8, VCPU_WORT(r9)
> +	/*
> +	 * Restore various registers to 0, where non-zero values
> +	 * set by the guest could disrupt the host.
> +	 */
> +	li	r0, 0
> +	mtspr	SPRN_IAMR, r0
> +	mtspr	SPRN_CIABR, r0
> +	mtspr	SPRN_DAWRX, r0
> +	mtspr	SPRN_TCSCR, r0
> +	mtspr	SPRN_WORT, r0
> +	/* Set MMCRS to 1<<31 to freeze and disable the SPMC counters */
> +	li	r0, 1
> +	sldi	r0, r0, 31
> +	mtspr	SPRN_MMCRS, r0
>  8:
>  
>  	/* Save and reset AMR and UAMOR before turning on the MMU */
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 


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David Gibson <dgibson@redhat.com>
Senior Software Engineer, Virtualization, Red Hat

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