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Commit fe1ef6bc authored by Mark Cave-Ayland's avatar Mark Cave-Ayland Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Fix 32-bit KVM-PR lockup and host crash with MacOS guest

Commit 8792468d "powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without
giving it up" unexpectedly removed the MSR_FE0 and MSR_FE1 bits from
the bitmask used to update the MSR of the previous thread in
__giveup_fpu() causing a KVM-PR MacOS guest to lockup and panic the
host kernel.

Leaving FE0/1 enabled means unrelated processes might receive FPEs
when they're not expecting them and crash. In particular if this
happens to init the host will then panic.

eg (transcribed):
  qemu-system-ppc[837]: unhandled signal 8 at 12cc9ce4 nip 12cc9ce4 lr 12cc9ca4 code 0
  systemd[1]: unhandled signal 8 at 202f02e0 nip 202f02e0 lr 001003d4 code 0
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b

Reinstate these bits to the MSR bitmask to enable MacOS guests to run
under 32-bit KVM-PR once again without issue.

Fixes: 8792468d

 ("powerpc: Add the ability to save FPU without giving it up")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.6+
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 9f3ba362
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