Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] KVM: vmx: add support for emulating UMIP

From: Yang Zhang
Date: Wed Jul 13 2016 - 06:03:10 EST


On 2016/7/13 17:35, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 13/07/2016 11:21, Yang Zhang wrote:

+static int handle_desc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ WARN_ON(!(vcpu->arch.cr4 & X86_CR4_UMIP));

I think WARN_ON is too heavy since a malicious guest may trigger it always.

I missed this---how so? Setting the bit is under "if ((cr4 &
X86_CR4_UMIP) && !boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_UMIP))".

Sorry, I consider it under my previous suggestion(setting it unconditionally). :(

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Yang
Alibaba Cloud Computing