Re: [PATCH 3/3 v4.9.y] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Enable TM before accessing TM registers

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:08:30AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> commit e47057151422a67ce08747176fa21cb3b526a2c9 upstream.
> 
> Commit 46a704f8409f ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state
> properly", 2017-06-15) added code to read transactional memory (TM)
> registers but forgot to enable TM before doing so.  The result is
> that if userspace does have live values in the TM registers, a KVM_RUN
> ioctl will cause a host kernel crash like this:
> 

I also have already taken this one, right?



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