Re: [PATCH/FIXUP FOR STABLE BEFORE THIS SERIES] KVM: s390: do not clobber user space fpc during guest reset

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On 30.01.20 09:55, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> The initial CPU reset currently clobbers the userspace fpc. This was an
> oversight during a fixup for the lazy fpu reloading rework.  The reset
> calls are only done from userspace ioctls. No CPU context is loaded, so
> we can (and must) act directly on the sync regs, not on the thread
> context. Otherwise the fpu restore call will restore the zeroes fpc to
> userspace.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 9abc2a08a7d6 ("KVM: s390: fix memory overwrites when vx is disabled")
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> index c059b86..eb789cd 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
> @@ -2824,8 +2824,7 @@ static void kvm_s390_vcpu_initial_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	vcpu->arch.sie_block->gcr[14] = CR14_UNUSED_32 |
>  					CR14_UNUSED_33 |
>  					CR14_EXTERNAL_DAMAGE_SUBMASK;
> -	/* make sure the new fpc will be lazily loaded */
> -	save_fpu_regs();
> +	vcpu->run->s.regs.fpc = 0;
>  	current->thread.fpu.fpc = 0;
>  	vcpu->arch.sie_block->gbea = 1;
>  	vcpu->arch.sie_block->pp = 0;
> 

kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl() does a vcpu_load(vcpu), followed by the call to
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_initial_reset(), followed by a vcpu_put().

What am I missing?

(we could get rid of the kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_initial_reset() wrapper)

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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