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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Fix host MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE corruption
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 15:39:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100706183925.GA20663@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1278405361-12517-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:36:01AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> enter_lmode() and exit_lmode() modify the guest's EFER.LMA before calling
> vmx_set_efer().  However, the latter function depends on the value of EFER.LMA
> to determine whether MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE needs reloading, via
> vmx_load_host_state().  With EFER.LMA changing under its feet, it took the
> wrong choice and corrupted userspace's %gs.
> 
> This causes 32-on-64 host userspace to fault.
> 
> Fix not touching EFER.LMA; instead ask vmx_set_efer() to change it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    7 ++-----
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> index ebaaeaf..2fdcc98 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -1812,18 +1812,15 @@ static void enter_lmode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  			     (guest_tr_ar & ~AR_TYPE_MASK)
>  			     | AR_TYPE_BUSY_64_TSS);
>  	}
> -	vcpu->arch.efer |= EFER_LMA;
> -	vmx_set_efer(vcpu, vcpu->arch.efer);
> +	vmx_set_efer(vcpu, vcpu->arch.efer | EFER_LMA);
>  }
>  
>  static void exit_lmode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  {
> -	vcpu->arch.efer &= ~EFER_LMA;
> -
>  	vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS,
>  		     vmcs_read32(VM_ENTRY_CONTROLS)
>  		     & ~VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE);
> -	vmx_set_efer(vcpu, vcpu->arch.efer);
> +	vmx_set_efer(vcpu, vcpu->arch.efer & ~EFER_LMA);
>  }
>  
>  #endif
> -- 
> 1.7.1

Looks good.


      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-06 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-06  8:36 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Fix host MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE corruption Avi Kivity
2010-07-06 18:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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