Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix failure of injecting exceptions in x86_emulate_instruction

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 12:30:26 EST


On 06/09/2018 10:02, Yi Wang wrote:
> In order to fix a page table walk issue, commit 6ea6e84309ca
> ("KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn") check
> if variable ctxt->have_exception true and inject the exception.
> Unfortunately, ctxt->have_exception is set to true only in function
> x86_emulate_insn(), which won't be called before invoking
> inject_emulated_exception() in the 6ea6e84309ca.
> This patch fix this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Xi Xu <xu.xi8@xxxxxxxxxx>

Queued, thanks. Do you have a testcase for this?

> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index 106482d..aecf9a72 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -5105,8 +5105,11 @@ int x86_decode_insn(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt, void *insn, int insn_len)
> memcpy(ctxt->fetch.data, insn, insn_len);
> else {
> rc = __do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, 1);
> - if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
> + if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE) {
> + if (rc == X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT)
> + ctxt->have_exception = true;
> return rc;
> + }
> }
>
> switch (mode) {
>