> On Aug 23, 2019, at 1:55 PM, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Don't advance RIP or inject a single-step #DB if emulation signals a
> fault. This logic applies to all state updates that are conditional on
> clean retirement of the emulation instruction, e.g. updating RFLAGS was
> previously handled by commit 38827dbd3fb85 ("KVM: x86: Do not update
> EFLAGS on faulting emulation").
>
> Not advancing RIP is likely a nop, i.e. ctxt->eip isn't updated with
> ctxt->_eip until emulation "retires" anyways. Skipping #DB injection
> fixes a bug reported by Andy Lutomirski where a #UD on SYSCALL due to
> invalid state with RFLAGS.RF=1 would loop indefinitely due to emulation
> overwriting the #UD with #DB and thus restarting the bad SYSCALL over
> and over.
>
> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 663f4c61b803 ("KVM: x86: handle singlestep during emulation")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Seems fine. I guess I should’ve found it before…
Consider running the relevant self-tests (e.g., single_test_syscall) to
avoid regressions.
