Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: x86: RSI/RDI/RCX are zero-extended when affected by string ops

From: Nadav Amit
Date: Tue Apr 22 2014 - 02:04:40 EST


Gleb,

On 4/20/14, 12:26 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 07:11:33AM +0300, Nadav Amit wrote:
When using address-size override prefix with string instructions in long-mode,
ESI/EDI/ECX are zero extended if they are affected by the instruction
(incremented/decremented). Currently, the KVM emulator does not do so.

In addition, although it is not well-documented, when address override prefix
is used with REP-string instruction, RCX high half is zeroed even if ECX was
zero on the first iteration. Therefore, the emulator should clear the upper
part of RCX in this case, as x86 CPUs do.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
:100644 100644 69e2636... a69ed67... M arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index 69e2636..a69ed67 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -491,6 +491,8 @@ register_address_increment(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, unsigned long *reg, in
else
mask = ad_mask(ctxt);
masked_increment(reg, mask, inc);
+ if (ctxt->ad_bytes == 4)
+ *reg &= 0xffffffff;
*reg=(u32)*reg; and you can do it inside else part.

register_address_increment() is used also by jmp_rel and loop instructions,
is this correct for both of those too? Probably yes.

It appears to be so.
Results of 32-bit operations are implicitly zero extended to 64-bit values, and this appears to apply to all 32 bit operations, including implicit ones. Therefore it seems to apply to all these operations.

}

static void rsp_increment(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, int inc)
@@ -4567,6 +4569,8 @@ int x86_emulate_insn(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
if (ctxt->rep_prefix && (ctxt->d & String)) {
/* All REP prefixes have the same first termination condition */
if (address_mask(ctxt, reg_read(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RCX)) == 0) {
+ if (ctxt->ad_bytes == 4)
+ *reg_write(ctxt, VCPU_REGS_RCX) = 0;
Does zero extension happens even if ECX was zero at the beginning on an instruction or only during
ECX modification. If later it is already covered in register_address_increment, no?
The observed behaviour of the Sandy-Bridge I use, is that even if ECX is zero on the first iteration, the high half of RCX is zeroed. Therefore, this is a different case, which was not covered in register_address_increment. I agree it is totally undocumented.
Following your previous comment - I may have missed the case in which loop instruction is executed with ECX = 0 while RCX != 0 and the address size is 32 bit. I will test this case soon (yet, it is lower on my priority list).

Nadav

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