Patch "MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load
to the 3.14-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:
mips-kvm-do-not-sign-extend-on-unsigned-mmio-load.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 14:47:50 +0200
Subject: MIPS: KVM: Do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load
From: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
commit ed9244e6c534612d2b5ae47feab2f55a0d4b4ced upstream.
Fix possible unintended sign extension in unsigned MMIO loads by casting to uint16_t in the case of mmio_needed != 2.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9985/
--- arch/mips/kvm/kvm_mips_emul.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/mips/kvm/kvm_mips_emul.c +1 -1
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load(struct kvm_vif (vcpu->mmio_needed ==2 ) *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;else - *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data; + *gpr = *(uint16_t *)run->mmio.data;break ;case 1 :
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.14/mips-kvm-do-not-sign-extend-on-unsigned-mmio-load.patch