This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: arm64: add workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum #852523 to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-arm64-add-workaround-for-cortex-a57-erratum-852523.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 43297dda0a51e4ffed0888ce727c218cfb7474b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:06:03 +0100 Subject: KVM: arm64: add workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum #852523 From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> commit 43297dda0a51e4ffed0888ce727c218cfb7474b6 upstream. When restoring the system register state for an AArch32 guest at EL2, writes to DACR32_EL2 may not be correctly synchronised by Cortex-A57, which can lead to the guest effectively running with junk in the DACR and running into unexpected domain faults. This patch works around the issue by re-ordering our restoration of the AArch32 register aliases so that they happen before the AArch64 system registers. Ensuring that the registers are restored in this order guarantees that they will be correctly synchronised by the core. Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S @@ -943,13 +943,15 @@ ENTRY(__kvm_vcpu_run) // Guest context add x2, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT + // We must restore the 32-bit state before the sysregs, thanks + // to Cortex-A57 erratum #852523. + restore_guest_32bit_state bl __restore_sysregs bl __restore_fpsimd skip_debug_state x3, 1f bl __restore_debug 1: - restore_guest_32bit_state restore_guest_regs // That's it, no more messing around. Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from will.deacon@xxxxxxx are queue-4.2/arm64-head.s-initialise-mdcr_el2-in-el2_setup.patch queue-4.2/arm64-set-max_memblock_addr-according-to-linear-region-size.patch queue-4.2/arm64-kconfig-move-list_poison-to-a-safe-value.patch queue-4.2/arm64-flush-fp-simd-state-correctly-after-execve.patch queue-4.2/arm64-entry-always-restore-x0-from-the-stack-on-syscall-return.patch queue-4.2/kvm-arm64-add-workaround-for-cortex-a57-erratum-852523.patch queue-4.2/of-fdt-make-memblock-maximum-physical-address-arch-configurable.patch queue-4.2/arm64-errata-add-module-build-workaround-for-erratum-843419.patch queue-4.2/arm64-compat-fix-vfp-save-restore-across-signal-handlers-in-big-endian.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html