Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] KVM: x86: add support for emulating UMIP

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Thu Jul 14 2016 - 08:24:22 EST


2016-07-14 09:00+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 13/07/2016 22:03, Radim KrÄmÃÅ wrote:
>> 2016-07-12 21:20+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
>>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
>>> @@ -3738,6 +3747,10 @@ static int em_lidt(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>>>
>>> static int em_smsw(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
>>> {
>>> + if ((ctxt->ops->get_cr(ctxt, 4) & X86_CR4_UMIP) &&
>>> + ctxt->ops->cpl(ctxt) > 0)
>>
>> UMIP should #GP(0) in virtual-8086 mode too (for SMSW, SIDT, and SGDT),
>> but cpl() returns 0 in vm86.
>
> No, it returns 3.
>
> vmx->rmode.vm86_active means "there is no unrestricted guest support,
> and we're using VM86 mode to emulate real mode". The special case in
> vmx_get_cpl is needed exactly because real mode CPL is 0 but VM86 has
> CPL 3. In fact fix_rmode_seg sets DPL=3 for all segments, and CPL=SS.DPL.

Right, thanks.