From: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx> commit 98b0bf02738004829d7e26d6cb47b2e469aaba86 upstream. If debug_regs.c is built with newer binutils, the resulting binary is "optimized" by the assembler: asm volatile("ss_start: " "xor %%rax,%%rax\n\t" "cpuid\n\t" "movl $0x1a0,%%ecx\n\t" "rdmsr\n\t" : : : "rax", "ecx"); is translated to : 000000000040194e <ss_start>: 40194e: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax <----- rax->eax? 401950: 0f a2 cpuid 401952: b9 a0 01 00 00 mov $0x1a0,%ecx 401957: 0f 32 rdmsr As you can see rax is replaced with eax in target binary code. This causes a difference is the length of xor instruction (2 Byte vs 3 Byte), and makes the hard-coded instruction length check fail: /* Instruction lengths starting at ss_start */ int ss_size[4] = { 3, /* xor */ <-------- 2 or 3? 2, /* cpuid */ 5, /* mov */ 2, /* rdmsr */ }; Encode the shorter version directly and, while at it, fix the "clobbers" of the asm. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/debug_regs.c @@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ static void guest_code(void) /* Single step test, covers 2 basic instructions and 2 emulated */ asm volatile("ss_start: " - "xor %%rax,%%rax\n\t" + "xor %%eax,%%eax\n\t" "cpuid\n\t" "movl $0x1a0,%%ecx\n\t" "rdmsr\n\t" - : : : "rax", "ecx"); + : : : "eax", "ebx", "ecx", "edx"); /* DR6.BD test */ asm volatile("bd_start: mov %%dr0, %%rax" : : : "rax");