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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <gleb@redhat.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	<stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [stable-3.4] possibly revert "KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding..."
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:44:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904164415.GA23288@windriver.com> (raw)

Hi Greg,

The 3.4.44+ cherry pick:

  ----------------
  commit 5b5b30580218eae22609989546bac6e44d0eda6e
  Author: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
  Date:   Wed Apr 24 13:38:36 2013 +0300

    KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding for 8bit mov[zs]x instructions
    
    commit 660696d1d16a71e15549ce1bf74953be1592bcd3 upstream.
    
    Source operand for one byte mov[zs]x is decoded incorrectly if it is in
    high byte register. Fix that.
    
    Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
  ----------------

introduces the following:

arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c: In function ‘decode_operand’:
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:3974:4: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘decode_register’ makes integer from pointer without a cast [enabled by default]
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:789:14: note: expected ‘u8’ but argument is of type ‘struct x86_emulate_ctxt *’
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:3974:4: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘decode_register’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c:789:14: note: expected ‘long unsigned int *’ but argument is of type ‘u8’

Based on the severity of the warnings above, I'm reasonably sure there will
be some kind of runtime regressions due to this, but I stopped to investigate
the warnings as soon as I saw them, before any run time testing.

It happens because mainline v3.7-rc1~113^2~40 (dd856efafe60) does this:

-static void *decode_register(u8 modrm_reg, unsigned long *regs,
+static void *decode_register(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, u8 modrm_reg,

Since 660696d1d16a71e1 was only applied to stable 3.4, 3.8, and 3.9 -- and
the prerequisite above is in 3.7+, the issue should be limited to 3.4.44+

Thanks,
Paul.

             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04 16:44 Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2013-09-10 11:05 ` [stable-3.4] possibly revert "KVM: X86 emulator: fix source operand decoding..." Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-12 16:55   ` Greg KH

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