Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] Faulty protection key handling

[Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 schrieb Dietmar Hahn:
> Hi,
>
> I played around with the minios and protection key bit in the psr register
> and got 3 different behaviors.
> 1.
> mov cr.ipsr = ...  (pk bit set)
> ...
> rfi
>
> leads to a hard reboot of the hypervisor. I looked at the rfi emulation and
> found, that the pk bit remains untouched. So the protection key stuff is
> switched on and the hypervisor and dom0 get some problems.
> This seems to be a real critical case. You can test this simply with the
> minios by changing line 130 in minios/arch/ia64/ia64.S to
> movl  r16=STARTUP_PSR | IA64_PSR_PK.
>
> 2.
> mov r2 = ...  (pk bit set)
> ;;
> mov psr.l = r2
>
> Nothing happend. In the source the pk bit is ignored.
>
> 3.
> ssm psr.pk
>
> leads to a crash of the domU with illegal op which seems to be the right
> thing.
>
> I think fixes are needed here for case 1 and 2. If the pk bit is set the
> domain should be paniced.
>

Hi,

attached is a patch, which handles setting psr.pk from domU the same way in 
all 3 cases named above. Always the domU is paniced with illegal op.
Thanks.

Dietmar.

pkr.patch
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