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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP

From Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP
Date 2016-07-14 14:30 +0200
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2016-07-14 09:00+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 13/07/2016 22:03, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> 2016-07-12 21:20+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
>>> @@ -3738,6 +3747,10 @@ static int em_lidt(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>>>  
>>>  static int em_smsw(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>>>  {
>>> +	if ((ctxt->ops->get_cr(ctxt, 4) & X86_CR4_UMIP) &&
>>> +	    ctxt->ops->cpl(ctxt) > 0)
>> 
>> UMIP should #GP(0) in virtual-8086 mode too (for SMSW, SIDT, and SGDT),
>> but cpl() returns 0 in vm86.
> 
> No, it returns 3.
> 
> vmx->rmode.vm86_active means "there is no unrestricted guest support,
> and we're using VM86 mode to emulate real mode".  The special case in
> vmx_get_cpl is needed exactly because real mode CPL is 0 but VM86 has
> CPL 3.  In fact fix_rmode_seg sets DPL=3 for all segments, and CPL=SS.DPL.

Right, thanks.

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[RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-12 21:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-07-13 22:10 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-14 09:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-07-14 14:30 +0200

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