On 21.09.2013, at 01:53, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> This fixes a typo in the code that saves the guest DSCR (Data Stream
> Control Register) into the kvm_vcpu_arch struct on guest exit.  The
> effect of the typo was that the DSCR value was saved in the wrong place,
> so changes to the DSCR by the guest didn't persist across guest exit
> and entry, and some host kernel memory got corrupted.
> 
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org [v3.1+]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>

Acked-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>

Gleb, Paolo, can you please queue this directly?


Alex

> ---
> Please send this upstream to Linus for inclusion in 3.12.
> 
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S 
> b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> index 8e0f28f..852e694 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S
> @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
> BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
>       mfspr   r8, SPRN_DSCR
>       ld      r7, HSTATE_DSCR(r13)
> -     std     r8, VCPU_DSCR(r7)
> +     std     r8, VCPU_DSCR(r9)
>       mtspr   SPRN_DSCR, r7
> END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_206)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.4.rc3
> 

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