Re: KVM: x86: stop IO emulation cycle if instruction pointer is modified

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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:16:55PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> MMIO/PIO emulation should be interrupted if the system is restarted.
> Otherwise in progress IO emulation continues at the instruction pointer,
> even after vcpus' IP has been modified by KVM_SET_REGS.
> 
> Use IP change as an indicator to reset MMIO/PIO emulation state.
> 
Userspace has to return to the kernel to complete pending IO operation.
This is documented in Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt. If this is not
what program does it is a bug. What userspace you see the problem with?

> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index e8ba99c..9f7ce41 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6144,6 +6144,10 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_regs *regs)
>  	kvm_register_write(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_R15, regs->r15);
>  #endif
>  
> +	/* stop IO emulation cycle if RIP changes */
> +	if (kvm_rip_read(vcpu) != regs->rip)
> +		vcpu->arch.complete_userspace_io = NULL;
> +
>  	kvm_rip_write(vcpu, regs->rip);
>  	kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, regs->rflags);
>  

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			Gleb.
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