This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
arm/arm64: kvm: Disable branch profiling in HYP code
to the 4.9-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:
arm-arm64-kvm-disable-branch-profiling-in-hyp-code.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f9b269f3098121b5d54aaf822e0898c8ed1d3fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:34:17 +0100
Subject: arm/arm64: kvm: Disable branch profiling in HYP code
From: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
commit f9b269f3098121b5d54aaf822e0898c8ed1d3fec upstream.
When HYP code runs into branch profiling code, it attempts to jump to
unmapped memory, causing a HYP Panic.
Disable the branch profiling for code designed to run at HYP mode.
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part
#
-ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector
+ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part
#
-ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector
+ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from julien.thierry@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/arm-arm64-kvm-disable-branch-profiling-in-hyp-code.patch