RE: [PATCH] KVM: x86: handle wrap around 32-bit address space

From: David Laight
Date: Wed Apr 29 2020 - 04:56:17 EST


From: David Laight
> Sent: 29 April 2020 09:50
> From: Jim Mattson
> > Sent: 28 April 2020 01:29
> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:59 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > KVM is not handling the case where EIP wraps around the 32-bit address
> > > space (that is, outside long mode). This is needed both in vmx.c
> > > and in emulate.c. SVM with NRIPS is okay, but it can still print
> > > an error to dmesg due to integer overflow.
> ...
> > > + if (unlikely(((rip ^ orig_rip) >> 31) == 3) && !is_64_bit_mode(vcpu))
>
> Isn't the more obvious:
> if (((rip ^ orig_rip) & 1ull << 32) ...
> equivalent?

Actually not even being clever, how about:
if (orig_rip < (1ull << 32) && unlikely(rip >= (1ull << 32)) && ...

David

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