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KVM: x86: Prevent host from panicking on shared MSR writes.
authorAndy Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:16:44 +0000 (11:16 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:21:08 +0000 (13:21 +0200)
commit8b3c3104c3f4f706e99365c3e0d2aa61b95f969f
treeccb686a3c75ce3b921a77038365752130b6ff589
parent854e8bb1aa06c578c2c9145fa6bfe3680ef63b23
KVM: x86: Prevent host from panicking on shared MSR writes.

The previous patch blocked invalid writes directly when the MSR
is written.  As a precaution, prevent future similar mistakes by
gracefulling handle GPs caused by writes to shared MSRs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
[Remove parts obsoleted by Nadav's patch. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c