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| author | Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> | 2013-06-07 10:02:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> | 2013-08-09 12:19:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 1bbd80549810637b7381ab0649ba7c7d62f1342a (patch) | |
| tree | baeef747d13eeb37203e62e9516256ae248a0831 /arch/arm | |
| parent | c095ba7224d8edc71dcef0d655911399a8bd4a3f (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-1bbd80549810637b7381ab0649ba7c7d62f1342a.tar.xz | |
arm64: KVM: perform save/restore of PAR_EL1
Not saving PAR_EL1 is an unfortunate oversight. If the guest
performs an AT* operation and gets scheduled out before reading
the result of the translation from PAREL1, it could become
corrupted by another guest or the host.
Saving this register is made slightly more complicated as KVM also
uses it on the permission fault handling path, leading to an ugly
"stash and restore" sequence. Fortunately, this is already a slow
path so we don't really care. Also, Linux doesn't do any AT*
operation, so Linux guests are not impacted by this bug.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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