Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm: x86: Allow userspace to handle emulation errors

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On Wednesday, 2021-04-21 at 09:26:34 -07, Jim Mattson wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:39 AM David Edmondson <dme@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 2021-04-20 at 18:34:48 UTC, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, Aaron Lewis wrote:
>> >> +                    KVM_INTERNAL_ERROR_EMULATION_FLAG_INSTRUCTION_BYTES;
>> >> +            vcpu->run->emulation_failure.insn_size = insn_size;
>> >> +            memcpy(vcpu->run->emulation_failure.insn_bytes,
>> >> +                   ctxt->fetch.data, sizeof(ctxt->fetch.data));
>> >
>> > Doesn't truly matter, but I think it's less confusing to copy over insn_size
>> > bytes.
>
>> And zero out the rest?
>
> Why zero? Since we're talking about an instruction stream, wouldn't
> 0x90 make more sense than zero?

I'm not sure if you are serious or not.

Zero-ing out the rest was intended to be to avoid leaking any previous
emulated instruction stream. If the user-level code wants to start
looking for instructions after insn_bytes[insn_size], they get what they
deserve.

dme.
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