KVM: emulate: fix CMPXCHG8B on 32-bit hosts
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:04:47 +0000 (17:04 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 9 May 2015 22:16:20 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit92c5461a91b1cf7d7a41d73b538bde4df095397f
treeb9b6762720389bb8d6189cbe525ee538d63a28b7
parent535939674b0534168550344ad052587cc076de69
KVM: emulate: fix CMPXCHG8B on 32-bit hosts

commit 4ff6f8e61eb7f96d3ca535c6d240f863ccd6fb7d upstream.

This has been broken for a long time: it broke first in 2.6.35, then was
almost fixed in 2.6.36 but this one-liner slipped through the cracks.
The bug shows up as an infinite loop in Windows 7 (and newer) boot on
32-bit hosts without EPT.

Windows uses CMPXCHG8B to write to page tables, which causes a
page fault if running without EPT; the emulator is then called from
kvm_mmu_page_fault.  The loop then happens if the higher 4 bytes are
not 0; the common case for this is that the NX bit (bit 63) is 1.

Fixes: 6550e1f165f384f3a46b60a1be9aba4bc3c2adad
Fixes: 16518d5ada690643453eb0aef3cc7841d3623c2d
Reported-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Tested-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c