Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] ppc: fix setting of compat mode

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:49:14PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> While trying to make KVM PR usable again, commit 5dfaa532ae introduced a
> regression: the current compat_pvr value is passed to KVM instead of the
> new one. This means that we always pass 0 instead of the max-cpu-compat
> PVR during the initial machine reset. And at CAS time, we either pass
> the PVR from the command line or even don't call kvmppc_set_compat() at
> all, ie, the PCR will not be set as expected.
> 
> For example if we start a big endian fedora26 guest in power7 compat
> mode on a POWER8 host, we get this in the guest:
> 
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : POWER7 (architected), altivec supported
> clock           : 4024.000000MHz
> revision        : 2.0 (pvr 004d 0200)
> 
> timebase        : 512000000
> platform        : pSeries
> model           : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
> machine         : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
> MMU             : Hash
> 
> but the guest can still execute POWER8 instructions, and the following
> program succeeds:
> 
> int main()
> {
>         asm("vncipher 0,0,0"); // ISA 2.07 instruction
> }
> 
> Let's pass the new compat_pvr to kvmppc_set_compat() and the program fails
> with SIGILL as expected.
> 
> Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

Nice catch.  Applied to ppc-for-2.11.

> ---
> 
> Cc'ing qemu-stable because the regression is present in 2.10.1... :-\
> ---
>  target/ppc/compat.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/ppc/compat.c b/target/ppc/compat.c
> index f8729fe46d61..ad8f93c0644e 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/compat.c
> +++ b/target/ppc/compat.c
> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ void ppc_set_compat(PowerPCCPU *cpu, uint32_t compat_pvr, 
> Error **errp)
>      cpu_synchronize_state(CPU(cpu));
>  
>      if (kvm_enabled() && cpu->compat_pvr != compat_pvr) {
> -        int ret = kvmppc_set_compat(cpu, cpu->compat_pvr);
> +        int ret = kvmppc_set_compat(cpu, compat_pvr);
>          if (ret < 0) {
>              error_setg_errno(errp, -ret,
>                               "Unable to set CPU compatibility mode in KVM");
> 

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