linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.10 28/62] KVM: emulate: fix CMPXCHG8B on 32-bit hosts

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:09:45 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Erik Rull <erik.rull@...oftware.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.10 28/62] KVM: emulate: fix CMPXCHG8B on 32-bit hosts

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

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@...oftware.de>
Tested-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@...oftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -4732,7 +4732,8 @@ int x86_emulate_insn(struct x86_emulate_
 		if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
 			goto done;
 	}
-	ctxt->dst.orig_val = ctxt->dst.val;
+	/* Copy full 64-bit value for CMPXCHG8B.  */
+	ctxt->dst.orig_val64 = ctxt->dst.val64;
 
 special_insn:
 


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