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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com>,
	Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Hu Robert <robert.hu@intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 12:52:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B68781.9080200@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B67602.4040604@redhat.com>

On 2014-07-04 11:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 04/07/2014 11:33, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>
>> The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this
>> function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without
>> reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and
>> let the function fail.
> 
> Is that just a missing "memory" clobber?  push/pop clobbers memory.

Nope, we would needs some clobber like "stack". I wonder what is
required to use push in inline assembly safely?

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02  6:54 [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race Wanpeng Li
2014-07-02  7:20 ` Hu, Robert
2014-07-02  9:03   ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-02  9:13     ` Hu, Robert
2014-07-02  9:16       ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-02  9:01 ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-03  2:59   ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03  5:15   ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03  6:59     ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03 17:27       ` Bandan Das
2014-07-04  2:52         ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  5:43           ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04  6:08             ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  7:19               ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04  7:39                 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  7:46                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04  7:59                     ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  8:14                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04  8:24                         ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  7:42             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04  9:33             ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04  9:38               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 10:52                 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2014-07-04 11:07                   ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 11:28                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04 11:46                       ` [PATCH] Add -mno-red-zone to CFLAGS for x86-64 Jan Kiszka
2014-07-04 11:49                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-04  6:17     ` [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Fix IRQs inject to L2 which belong to L1 since race Wanpeng Li
2014-07-04  7:21       ` Jan Kiszka
2014-07-07  0:56       ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07  8:46         ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-07 13:03           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 17:31             ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 17:34               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 17:38                 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 23:14                   ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-08  4:35                     ` Bandan Das
2014-07-07 23:38             ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-08  5:49               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-02 16:27 ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03  5:11   ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03  5:29     ` Bandan Das
2014-07-03  7:33       ` Jan Kiszka

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