Re: [Question] Switching VCPU CPL from the hypervisor ?

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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini <at> redhat.com> writes:
> On 15/12/2015 18:02, Hebbal Yacine wrote:
> > What I want to do is: when a controlled process is in user mode, i
> > change its cpl to 0, force it to execute a code that is injected in the
> > VM, set back its cpl to 3 and let it run like if nothing happened
> 
> Could you inject an SMI and place your code in the guest firmware's SMM
> handler?  What input is needed by this CPL=0 code?
> 
> Paolo

I think the the solution follows this logic, meaning we inject an interrupt,
intercept execution of its handler (cpl is 0), save cpu context, execute the
code we want, push a return address, and force the process to execute IRET
instruction which will complete the cleaning, restore cpl to 3 and let the
process resume its normal execution. I'll continue to dig this to see if
there is any better approach, thanks for your help :)


Yacine

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