Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Fix CPL export via SS.DPL

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jun 29 2014 - 14:00:48 EST


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 05:12:43PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> We import the CPL via SS.DPL since ae9fedc793. However, we fail to
> export it this way so far. This caused spurious guest crashes, e.g. of
> Linux when accessing the vmport from guest user space which triggered
> register saving/restoring to/from host user space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Yep, looks good.

Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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