Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Avoid emulating instructions on #UD mistakenly

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On Aug 18, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Il 13/08/2014 16:21, Nadav Amit ha scritto:
>> Correction: the word “never” in the message is too harsh.
>> Nonetheless, there is a regression bug. I encountered it with “wrfsbase” instruction.
> 
> So KVM is emulating wrfsbase even if the host doesn't support it?
KVM doesn’t know wrfsbase - wrfsbase is encoded like clflush with rep-prefix.
Therefore, the emulator thinks it can emulate it as clflush, and eliminates the #UD.

> 
> I'm swapping the order of the two operands of &&, since the first one will almost
> always be true and the second one will almost always be false.
> 
> Also, there's now no need to test EmulateOnUD in the condition below.  Does the
> below look good to you?
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index 37a83b24e040..ef117b842334 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -4394,11 +4394,11 @@ done_prefixes:
> 
>  	ctxt->execute = opcode.u.execute;
> 
> -	if (!(ctxt->d & EmulateOnUD) && ctxt->ud)
> +	if (unlikely(ctxt->ud) && likely(!(ctxt->d & EmulateOnUD)))
>  		return EMULATION_FAILED;
> 
>  	if (unlikely(ctxt->d &
> -		     (NotImpl|EmulateOnUD|Stack|Op3264|Sse|Mmx|Intercept|CheckPerm))) {
> +		     (NotImpl|Stack|Op3264|Sse|Mmx|Intercept|CheckPerm))) {
>  		/*
>  		 * These are copied unconditionally here, and checked unconditionally
>  		 * in x86_emulate_insn.
> 

Sure. Until I find some bugs in it. ;-)

Thanks,
Nadav

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