Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.11 036/104] KVM: arm64: Use BUG and BUG_ON in nVHE hyp

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed May 05 2021 - 13:23:22 EST


Sasha,

On Wed, 05 May 2021 17:33:05 +0100,
Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Scull <ascull@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit f79e616f27ab6cd74deb0995a8eead3d1c9d65af ]
>
> hyp_panic() reports the address of the panic by using ELR_EL2, but this
> isn't a useful address when hyp_panic() is called directly. Replace such
> direct calls with BUG() and BUG_ON() which use BRK to trigger an
> exception that then goes to hyp_panic() with the correct address. Also
> remove the hyp_panic() declaration from the header file to avoid
> accidental misuse.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Scull <ascull@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210318143311.839894-5-ascull@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

This has no chance of working without the patches that enable BUG()
support at EL2, and *really* isn't stable material.

Please drop this patch.

Thanks,

M.

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