Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value

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On 05/11/2017 15:21, Liran Alon wrote:
> From: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In case of instruction-decode failure or emulation failure,
> x86_emulate_instruction() will call reexecute_instruction() which will
> attempt to use the cr2 value passed to x86_emulate_instruction().
> However, when x86_emulate_instruction() is called from
> emulate_instruction(), cr2 is not passed (passed as 0) and therefore
> it doesn't make sense to execute reexecute_instruction() logic at all.
> 
> Fixes: 51d8b66199e9 ("KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index c73e493adf07..bc1347949cef 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -1156,7 +1156,8 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr2,
>  static inline int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  			int emulation_type)
>  {
> -	return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0, emulation_type, NULL, 0);
> +	return x86_emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0,
> +			emulation_type | EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE, NULL, 0);
>  }
>  
>  void kvm_enable_efer_bits(u64);
> 

You can remove EMULTYPE_NO_REEXECUTE from handle_invalid_guest_state now.

Thanks,

Paolo



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