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ppc/kvm: Use error_report() instead of cpu_abort() for user-triggerable errors

PATCH Applied Thomas Huth 2 participants 2 messages Feb 18, 2016 – Feb 19, 2016

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PATCH 1/1 ppc/kvm: Use error_report() instead of cpu_abort() for user-triggerable errors

Setting the KVM_CAP_PPC_PAPR capability can fail if either the KVM kernel module does not support it, or if the specified vCPU type is not a 64-bit Book3-S CPU type. For example, the user can trigger it easily with "-M pseries -cpu G2leLS" when using the kvm-pr kernel module. So the error should not be reported with cpu_abort() since this function is rather meant for reporting programming errors than reporting user-triggerable errors (it prints out all CPU registers and then calls abort() to kills the program - two things that the normal user does not expect here) . So let's use error_report() with exit(1) here instead.
A similar problem exists in the code that sets the KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR capability, so while we're at it, fix that, too.

---
 target-ppc/kvm.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
target-ppc/kvm.c +5 -2
index 70ca296..762d6cf 100644
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/kvm.h>
 
 #include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 #include "sysemu/kvm.h"
@@ -1993,7 +1994,8 @@ void kvmppc_set_papr(PowerPCCPU *cpu)
 
     ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_PPC_PAPR, 0);
     if (ret) {
-        cpu_abort(cs, "This KVM version does not support PAPR\n");
+        error_report("This vCPU type or KVM version does not support PAPR");
+        exit(1);
     }
 
     /* Update the capability flag so we sync the right information
@@ -2013,7 +2015,8 @@ void kvmppc_set_mpic_proxy(PowerPCCPU *cpu, int mpic_proxy)
 
     ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR, 0, mpic_proxy);
     if (ret && mpic_proxy) {
-        cpu_abort(cs, "This KVM version does not support EPR\n");
+        error_report("This KVM version does not support EPR");
+        exit(1);
     }
 }
 
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Quoted 13 lines · Thomas Huth

Setting the KVM_CAP_PPC_PAPR capability can fail if either the KVM kernel module does not support it, or if the specified vCPU type is not a 64-bit Book3-S CPU type. For example, the user can trigger it easily with "-M pseries -cpu G2leLS" when using the kvm-pr kernel module. So the error should not be reported with cpu_abort() since this function is rather meant for reporting programming errors than reporting user-triggerable errors (it prints out all CPU registers and then calls abort() to kills the program - two things that the normal user does not expect here) . So let's use error_report() with exit(1) here instead.
A similar problem exists in the code that sets the KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR capability, so while we're at it, fix that, too.

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Applied to ppc-for-2.6, thanks.

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---
 target-ppc/kvm.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
target-ppc/kvm.c +5 -2
index 70ca296..762d6cf 100644
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/kvm.h>
 
 #include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 #include "sysemu/kvm.h"
@@ -1993,7 +1994,8 @@ void kvmppc_set_papr(PowerPCCPU *cpu)
 
     ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_PPC_PAPR, 0);
     if (ret) {
-        cpu_abort(cs, "This KVM version does not support PAPR\n");
+        error_report("This vCPU type or KVM version does not support PAPR");
+        exit(1);
     }
 
     /* Update the capability flag so we sync the right information
@@ -2013,7 +2015,8 @@ void kvmppc_set_mpic_proxy(PowerPCCPU *cpu, int mpic_proxy)
 
     ret = kvm_vcpu_enable_cap(cs, KVM_CAP_PPC_EPR, 0, mpic_proxy);
     if (ret && mpic_proxy) {
-        cpu_abort(cs, "This KVM version does not support EPR\n");
+        error_report("This KVM version does not support EPR");
+        exit(1);
     }
 }
 
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