Patch "arm64: KVM: pmu: Fix AArch32 cycle counter access" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

arm64: KVM: pmu: Fix AArch32 cycle counter access

to the 4.8-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:
arm64-kvm-pmu-fix-aarch32-cycle-counter-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Wei Huang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:20:57 +0000
Subject: arm64: KVM: pmu: Fix AArch32 cycle counter access

From: Wei Huang <[email protected]>

commit 9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9 upstream.

We're missing the handling code for the cycle counter accessed from a 32bit guest, leading to unexpected results.

---
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -602,8 +602,14 @@ static bool access_pmu_evcntr(struct kvm
 
 			idx = ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX;
 		} else {
-			BUG();
+			return false;
 		}
+	} else if (r->CRn == 0 && r->CRm == 9) {
+		/* PMCCNTR */
+		if (pmu_access_event_counter_el0_disabled(vcpu))
+			return false;
+
+		idx = ARMV8_PMU_CYCLE_IDX;
 	} else if (r->CRn == 14 && (r->CRm & 12) == 8) {
 		/* PMEVCNTRn_EL0 */
 		if (pmu_access_event_counter_el0_disabled(vcpu))

@@ -611,7 +617,7 @@ static bool access_pmu_evcntr(struct kvm
 
 		idx = ((r->CRm & 3) << 3) | (r->Op2 & 7);
 	} else {
-		BUG();
+		return false;
 	}
 
 	if (!pmu_counter_idx_valid(vcpu, idx))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/arm64-kvm-pmu-fix-aarch32-cycle-counter-access.patch queue-4.8/kvm-arm64-fix-the-issues-when-guest-pmccfiltr-is-configured.patch