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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
Cc: gleb@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86: Emulator support for #UD on CPL>0
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:29:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A1BE5E.3060809@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403101176-23664-3-git-send-email-namit@cs.technion.ac.il>

Il 18/06/2014 16:19, Nadav Amit ha scritto:
> Certain instructions (e.g., mwait and monitor) cause a #UD exception when they
> are executed in privilaged mode.

It's actually "non-privileged mode" (Priv means the instruction is 
privileged, not the mode).  So I've renamed the flag to PrivUD.

Paolo

  This is in contrast to the regular privilaged
> instructions which cause #GP. In order not to mess with SVM interception of
> mwait and monitor which assumes privilage level assertions take place before
> interception, a flag has been added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@cs.technion.ac.il>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index f90194d..ef7a5a0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@
>  #define SrcWrite    ((u64)1 << 46)  /* Write back src operand */
>  #define NoMod	    ((u64)1 << 47)  /* Mod field is ignored */
>  #define NoBigReal   ((u64)1 << 48)  /* No big real mode */
> +#define UDOnPriv    ((u64)1 << 49)  /* #UD instead of #GP on CPL > 0 */
>
>  #define DstXacc     (DstAccLo | SrcAccHi | SrcWrite)
>
> @@ -4560,7 +4561,10 @@ int x86_emulate_insn(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>
>  	/* Privileged instruction can be executed only in CPL=0 */
>  	if ((ctxt->d & Priv) && ops->cpl(ctxt)) {
> -		rc = emulate_gp(ctxt, 0);
> +		if (ctxt->d & UDOnPriv)
> +			rc = emulate_ud(ctxt);
> +		else
> +			rc = emulate_gp(ctxt, 0);
>  		goto done;
>  	}
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 14:19 [PATCH 0/3] Correct monitor-mwait emulation as nop Nadav Amit
2014-06-18 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: Emulator flag for instruction with no big real mode Nadav Amit
2014-06-18 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86: Emulator support for #UD on CPL>0 Nadav Amit
2014-06-18 16:29   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-06-18 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: correct mwait and monitor emulation Nadav Amit
2014-06-18 16:32   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-18 16:43   ` Bandan Das
2014-06-18 16:44     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-18 17:33       ` Bandan Das
2014-06-18 17:59   ` Eric Northup
2014-06-18 18:23     ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-18 18:30       ` Eric Northup
2014-06-18 18:59         ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-18 18:46     ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-18 19:09       ` Bandan Das
2014-06-19 10:18       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]         ` <1B06E887-9D07-4E85-AE06-75B01787C488@gmail.com>
2014-06-19 11:23           ` Gleb Natapov
2014-06-19 11:52             ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-19 12:01               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-19 12:07               ` Gleb Natapov
2014-06-19 12:10                 ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-19 12:16                   ` Gleb Natapov
2014-06-19 12:17                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-19 12:28                     ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-19 11:34     ` Paolo Bonzini

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