KVM: x86: Prevent host from panicking on shared MSR writes.

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commit 8b3c3104c3 upstream.

The previous patch blocked invalid writes directly when the MSR
is written.  As a precaution, prevent future similar mistakes by
gracefulling handle GPs caused by writes to shared MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
[Remove parts obsoleted by Nadav's patch. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Andy Honig 2014-08-27 11:16:44 -07:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

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