Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: s390: Fix skey emulation permission check

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On 05.12.2017 09:33, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> From: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> All skey functions call skey_check_enable at their start, which checks
> if we are in the PSTATE and injects a privileged operation exception
> if we are.
> 
> Unfortunately they continue processing afterwards and perform the
> operation anyhow as skey_check_enable does not deliver an error if the
> exception injection was successful.
> 
> Let's move the PSTATE check into the skey functions and exit them on
> such an occasion, also we now do not enable skey handling anymore in
> such a case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: a7e19ab ("KVM: s390: handle missing storage-key facility")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.8+
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kvm/priv.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
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