Re: preempt notifier emulation host crash fix

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there's a small glitch in the preempt notifier external module
> emulation. The overloaded debug handler will not detect when a debug
> exception has been generated by ptrace and it'll crash the host by
> calling the preempt emulator like if this was a KVM preempt emulated
> exception, instead of notifying userland.
>
> To detect when the preempt emulation is needed and when the exception
> should be bypassed to the original handler, I decided to use bit 10 of
> db7 that can't be set to 1 by ptrace, the mask against the userland
> passed db7 value is 0xfc00, so bit 10 is forbidden to be on unless it
> was KVM setting it manually with 0x701 (kvm really only needs 0x301 to
> get exact exception, dunno what 0x400 means, it's defined reserved,
> but it doesn't matter what it means as long as ptrace can't set it ;).
>   

Applied, thanks.

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