linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.4 152/177] KVM: x86: Fix uninitialized op->type for some immediate values

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:48:12 +0800
From:	Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
CC:	<lizf@...nel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4 152/177] KVM: x86: Fix uninitialized op->type for
 some immediate values

On 2015/1/28 16:47, Nadav Amit wrote:
> This bug should have no effect on Linux 3.4. It shouldn’t hurt, but the
> problem it fixes was introduced in 3.16 or 3.17.

Dropped. Thanks!

> 
> Nadav
> 
> lizf@...nel.org wrote:
> 
>> From: Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>
>>
>> 3.4.106-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>>
>> commit d29b9d7ed76c0b961603ca692b8a562556a20212 upstream.
>>
>> The emulator could reuse an op->type from a previous instruction for some
>> immediate values.  If it mistakenly considers the operands as memory
>> operands, it will performs a memory read and overwrite op->val.
>>
>> Consider for instance the ROR instruction - src2 (the number of times)
>> would be read from memory instead of being used as immediate.
>>
>> Mark every immediate operand as such to avoid this problem.
>>
>> Fixes: c44b4c6ab80eef3a9c52c7b3f0c632942e6489aa
>> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>


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