On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 01:22:52PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> From: Eric Northup <digitale...@google.com>
> 
> It was found that a guest can DoS a host by triggering an infinite
> stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions.  This causes the
> microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives
> another interrupt.  The host kernel panics pretty quickly due to the
> effects (CVE-2015-5307).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Northup <digitale...@google.com>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>

Tested-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkate...@google.com>

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