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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: William Grant <wgrant@ubuntu.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Don't forbid NX bit on PAE PDEs and PTEs
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:40:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FB66EA.1010107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53F9748C.4080406@ubuntu.com>

Il 24/08/2014 07:13, William Grant ha scritto:
> Commit e8f6d00c30ed88910d0d985f4b2bf41654172ceb ("target-i386: raise
> page fault for reserved physical address bits") added a check that the
> NX bit is not set on PAE PDPEs, but it also added it to rsvd_mask for
> the rest of the function. This caused any PDEs or PTEs with NX set to be
> erroneously rejected, making PAE guests with NX support unusable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Grant <wgrant@ubuntu.com>
> ---
>  target-i386/helper.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-i386/helper.c b/target-i386/helper.c
> index 47b982b..30cb0d0 100644
> --- a/target-i386/helper.c
> +++ b/target-i386/helper.c
> @@ -615,8 +615,8 @@ int x86_cpu_handle_mmu_fault(CPUState *cs, vaddr addr,
>              if (!(pdpe & PG_PRESENT_MASK)) {
>                  goto do_fault;
>              }
> -            rsvd_mask |= PG_HI_USER_MASK | PG_NX_MASK;
> -            if (pdpe & rsvd_mask) {
> +            rsvd_mask |= PG_HI_USER_MASK;
> +            if (pdpe & (rsvd_mask | PG_NX_MASK)) {
>                  goto do_fault_rsvd;
>              }
>              ptep = PG_NX_MASK | PG_USER_MASK | PG_RW_MASK;
> 

Thanks, applied to uq/master.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-25 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-24  5:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Don't forbid NX bit on PAE PDEs and PTEs William Grant
2014-08-25 16:40 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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