Capture ctxt->regs_dirty in a local 'unsigned long' instead of casting it to an 'unsigned long *' for use in for_each_set_bit(). The bitops helpers really do read the entire 'unsigned long', even though the walking of the read value is capped at the specified size. I.e. 64-bit KVM is reading memory beyond ctxt->regs_dirty, which is a u32 and thus 4 bytes, whereas an unsigned long is 8 bytes. Functionally it's not an issue because regs_dirty is in the middle of x86_emulate_ctxt, i.e. KVM is just reading its own memory, but relying on that coincidence is gross and unsafe. Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c index 89b11e7dca8a..7226a127ccb4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c @@ -269,9 +269,10 @@ static ulong *reg_rmw(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, unsigned nr) static void writeback_registers(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt) { + unsigned long dirty = ctxt->regs_dirty; unsigned reg; - for_each_set_bit(reg, (ulong *)&ctxt->regs_dirty, 16) + for_each_set_bit(reg, &dirty, 16) ctxt->ops->write_gpr(ctxt, reg, ctxt->_regs[reg]); } -- 2.36.1.255.ge46751e96f-goog