This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls to the 3.18-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: arm64-kvm-fix-smccc-handling-of-unimplemented-smc-hvc-calls.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From acfb3b883f6d6a4b5d27ad7fdded11f6a09ae6dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:23:47 +0000 Subject: arm64: KVM: Fix SMCCC handling of unimplemented SMC/HVC calls From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit acfb3b883f6d6a4b5d27ad7fdded11f6a09ae6dd upstream. KVM doesn't follow the SMCCC when it comes to unimplemented calls, and inject an UNDEF instead of returning an error. Since firmware calls are now used for security mitigation, they are becoming more common, and the undef is counter productive. Instead, let's follow the SMCCC which states that -1 must be returned to the caller when getting an unknown function number. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static int handle_hvc(struct kvm_vcpu *v ret = kvm_psci_call(vcpu); if (ret < 0) { - kvm_inject_undefined(vcpu); + vcpu_set_reg(vcpu, 0, ~0UL); return 1; } @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static int handle_hvc(struct kvm_vcpu *v static int handle_smc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run) { - kvm_inject_undefined(vcpu); + vcpu_set_reg(vcpu, 0, ~0UL); return 1; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/arm64-kvm-fix-smccc-handling-of-unimplemented-smc-hvc-calls.patch