Re: [PATCH v2] mce: use safe MSR accesses

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:03:39AM -0500, jesse.larrew@xxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Jesse Larrew <jesse.larrew@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Certain MSRs are only relevant to a kernel in host mode, and kvm had
> chosen not to implement these MSRs at all for guests. If a guest kernel
> ever tried to access these MSRs, the result was a general protection
> fault.
> 
> KVM will be separately patched to return 0 when these MSRs are read,
> and this patch ensures that MSR accesses are tolerant of exceptions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jesse.larrew@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 11 +++--------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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