Patch "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly

to the 4.4-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:
kvm-ppc-book3s-hv-preserve-userspace-htm-state-properly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:10:27 +1000
Subject: KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Preserve userspace HTM state properly

From: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>

commit 46a704f8409f79fd66567ad3f8a7304830a84293 upstream.

If userspace attempts to call the KVM_RUN ioctl when it has hardware transactional memory (HTM) enabled, the values that it has put in the HTM-related SPRs TFHAR, TFIAR and TEXASR will get overwritten by guest values. To fix this, we detect this condition and save those SPR values in the thread struct, and disable HTM for the task. If userspace goes to access those SPRs or the HTM facility in future, a TM-unavailable interrupt will occur and the handler will reload those SPRs and re-enable HTM.

If userspace has started a transaction and suspended it, we would currently lose the transactional state in the guest entry path and would almost certainly get a "TM Bad Thing" interrupt, which would cause the host to crash. To avoid this, we detect this case and return from the KVM_RUN ioctl with an EINVAL error, with the KVM exit reason set to KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY.

---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

@@ -2693,6 +2693,27 @@ static int kvmppc_vcpu_run_hv(struct kvm
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't allow entry with a suspended transaction, because
+	 * the guest entry/exit code will lose it.
+	 * If the guest has TM enabled, save away their TM-related SPRs
+	 * (they will get restored by the TM unavailable interrupt).
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM
+	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_TM) && current->thread.regs &&
+	    (current->thread.regs->msr & MSR_TM)) {
+		if (MSR_TM_ACTIVE(current->thread.regs->msr)) {
+			run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY;
+			run->fail_entry.hardware_entry_failure_reason = 0;
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+		current->thread.tm_tfhar = mfspr(SPRN_TFHAR);
+		current->thread.tm_tfiar = mfspr(SPRN_TFIAR);
+		current->thread.tm_texasr = mfspr(SPRN_TEXASR);
+		current->thread.regs->msr &= ~MSR_TM;
+	}
+#endif
+
 	kvmppc_core_prepare_to_enter(vcpu);
 
 	/* No need to go into the guest when all we'll do is come back out */

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

queue-4.4/kvm-ppc-book3s-hv-preserve-userspace-htm-state-properly.patch