On long-mode the current NOP (0x90) emulation still writes back to RAX. As a
result, EAX is zero-extended and the high 32-bits of RAX are cleared.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index b354531..eb93eb4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -4663,8 +4663,9 @@ special_insn:
break;
case 0x90 ... 0x97: /* nop / xchg reg, rax */
if (ctxt->dst.addr.reg == reg_rmw(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RAX))
- break;
- rc = em_xchg(ctxt);
+ ctxt->dst.type = OP_NONE;
+ else
+ rc = em_xchg(ctxt);
break;
case 0x98: /* cbw/cwde/cdqe */
switch (ctxt->op_bytes) {
--
1.9.1
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