Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix failure of injecting exceptions in x86_emulate_instruction

[Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>]

+cc Peng Hao and Jiang Biao

On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 06:53:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 20/09/2018 18:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 06/09/2018 10:02, Yi Wang wrote:
> >> In order to fix a page table walk issue, commit 6ea6e84309ca
> >> ("KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn") check
> >> if variable ctxt->have_exception true and inject the exception.
> >> Unfortunately, ctxt->have_exception is set to true only in function
> >> x86_emulate_insn(), which won't be called before invoking
> >> inject_emulated_exception() in the 6ea6e84309ca.
> >> This patch fix this issue.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
> >> Reviewed-by: Xi Xu <xu.xi8@zte.com.cn>
> > 
> > Queued, thanks.  Do you have a testcase for this?
> 
> Unqueued, sorry.  The hypercall test from kvm-unit-tests fails.  A
> VMCALL on the "edge" of canonical address space, i.e. at 0x7ffffffffffd,
> raises a general protection fault before this patch and a double fault
> afterwards.

Peng Hao submitted a very similar patch[1], the difference being that
it also modified x86_emulate_instruction() to ignore the result of
inject_emulated_exception().  I have no idea if that change is correct
but it may be related to the aforementioned unit test failing.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/19/38