From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rkrcmar@redhat.com (Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?=) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:49:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: KVM: VHE: Context switch MDSCR_EL1 In-Reply-To: <20160721142451.2ee990ce@arm.com> References: <1468933014-26966-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <20160721131720.GA32739@potion> <20160721142451.2ee990ce@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160721134937.GA4603@potion> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 2016-07-21 14:24+0100, Marc Zyngier: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:17:20 +0200 > Radim Kr?m?? wrote: > > Hi Radim, > >> 2016-07-19 13:56+0100, Marc Zyngier: >> > The kprobe enablement work has uncovered that changes made by >> > a guest to MDSCR_EL1 were propagated to the host when VHE was >> > enabled, leading to unexpected exception being delivered. >> > >> > Moving this register to the list of registers that are always >> > context-switched fixes the issue. >> > >> > Fixes: 9c6c35683286 ("arm64: KVM: VHE: Split save/restore of registers shared between guest and host") >> > Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org #4.6 >> > Reported-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla >> > Tested-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla >> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier >> > --- >> >> I would take this patch to 4.7 directly through the main tree. >> Are your plans different? > > If you're happy to take it now, that works for me. The fix is clear, tested, and would go to 4.7.stable. Better to have it in 4.7, IMO. > I can either send a > PR right away, or you can apply it directly, whichever works best for > you. It is just one patch so I'll apply it and send a pull request to Linus on Saturday; less cummulative work that way. :)