Outer-privilege level return is not implemented in emulator,
move the unhandled logic into __load_segment_descriptor to
make it easier to understand why the checks for RET are
incomplete.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index 37c4213bdcc1..bd91b952eb0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -1631,9 +1631,14 @@ static int __load_segment_descriptor(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
if (!(seg_desc.type & 8))
goto exception;
- /* RET can never return to an inner privilege level. */
- if (transfer == X86_TRANSFER_RET && rpl < cpl)
- goto exception;
+ if (transfer == X86_TRANSFER_RET) {
+ /* RET can never return to an inner privilege level. */
+ if (rpl < cpl)
+ goto exception;
+ /* Outer-privilege level return is not implemented */
+ if (rpl > cpl)
+ return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
+ }
if (transfer == X86_TRANSFER_RET || transfer == X86_TRANSFER_TASK_SWITCH) {
if (seg_desc.type & 4) {
/* conforming */
@@ -2228,9 +2233,6 @@ static int em_ret_far(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
rc = emulate_pop(ctxt, &cs, ctxt->op_bytes);
if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
return rc;
- /* Outer-privilege level return is not implemented */
- if (ctxt->mode >= X86EMUL_MODE_PROT16 && (cs & 3) > cpl)
- return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
rc = __load_segment_descriptor(ctxt, (u16)cs, VCPU_SREG_CS, cpl,
X86_TRANSFER_RET,
&new_desc);
--
2.31.1
