Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] x86: KVM: svm: don't pretend to advance RIP in case wrmsr_interception() results in #GP

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 11:29:46 EST


On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:01:46AM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> svm->next_rip is only used by skip_emulated_instruction() and in case
> kvm_set_msr() fails we rightfully don't do that. Move svm->next_rip
> advancement to 'else' branch to avoid creating false impression that
> it's always advanced (and make it look like rdmsr_interception()).
>
> This is a preparatory change to removing hardcoded RIP advancement
> from instruction intercepts, no functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>