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Commit fbd70437 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails



This demotes an OOPS and likely panic due to a failed non-"safe" MSR
access to a WARN_ONCE() and, for RDMSR, a return value of zero.

To be clear, this type of failure should *not* happen.  This patch
exists to minimize the chance of nasty undebuggable failures
happening when a CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y bug in the non-"safe" MSR helpers
gets fixed.

Tested-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: xen-devel <Xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/26567b216aae70e795938f4b567eace5a0eb90ba.1459605520.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent c2ee03b2
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