linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] KVM: vmx: add support for emulating UMIP

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Message-ID: <4e7bab78-61cf-271e-9fb9-685d217f8d0d@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:35:53 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] KVM: vmx: add support for emulating UMIP



On 13/07/2016 11:21, Yang Zhang wrote:
>>
>> +static int handle_desc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>> +{
>> +    WARN_ON(!(vcpu->arch.cr4 & X86_CR4_UMIP));
> 
> I think WARN_ON is too heavy since a malicious guest may trigger it always.

I missed this---how so?  Setting the bit is under "if ((cr4 &
X86_CR4_UMIP) && !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_UMIP))".

Paolo