linux-kernel - [PATCH 25/47] KVM: Allow emulation of syscalls instructions on #UD

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:02:21 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 25/47] KVM: Allow emulation of syscalls instructions on #UD

From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>

Add the opcodes for syscall, sysenter and sysexit to the list of instructions
handled by the undefined opcode handler.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@....com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 892a7a6..57e76b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2667,14 +2667,33 @@ int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 
 		r = x86_decode_insn(&vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt, &emulate_ops);
 
-		/* Reject the instructions other than VMCALL/VMMCALL when
-		 * try to emulate invalid opcode */
+		/* Only allow emulation of specific instructions on #UD
+		 * (namely VMMCALL, sysenter, sysexit, syscall)*/
 		c = &vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.decode;
-		if ((emulation_type & EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD) &&
-		    (!(c->twobyte && c->b == 0x01 &&
-		      (c->modrm_reg == 0 || c->modrm_reg == 3) &&
-		       c->modrm_mod == 3 && c->modrm_rm == 1)))
-			return EMULATE_FAIL;
+		if (emulation_type & EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD) {
+			if (!c->twobyte)
+				return EMULATE_FAIL;
+			switch (c->b) {
+			case 0x01: /* VMMCALL */
+				if (c->modrm_mod != 3 || c->modrm_rm != 1)
+					return EMULATE_FAIL;
+				break;
+			case 0x34: /* sysenter */
+			case 0x35: /* sysexit */
+				if (c->modrm_mod != 0 || c->modrm_rm != 0)
+					return EMULATE_FAIL;
+				break;
+			case 0x05: /* syscall */
+				if (c->modrm_mod != 0 || c->modrm_rm != 0)
+					return EMULATE_FAIL;
+				break;
+			default:
+				return EMULATE_FAIL;
+			}
+
+			if (!(c->modrm_reg == 0 || c->modrm_reg == 3))
+				return EMULATE_FAIL;
+		}
 
 		++vcpu->stat.insn_emulation;
 		if (r)  {
-- 
1.6.3.3

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