[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] x86/vvmx: check vmcs address in vmread/vmwrite
>>> On 01.03.17 at 10:13, <sergey.dyasli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If nested vmcs's address is invalid, virtual_vmcs_enter() will fail > during vmread/vmwrite: > > (XEN) Xen BUG at .../git/upstream/xen/xen/include/asm/hvm/vmx/vmx.h:333 > (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.9-unstable x86_64 debug=y Tainted: H ]---- > (XEN) Xen call trace: > (XEN) [<ffff82d0801f925e>] > vmcs.c#arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmcs.o.unlikely+0x28/0x19a > (XEN) [<ffff82d0801f60e3>] virtual_vmcs_vmwrite_safe+0x16/0x52 > (XEN) [<ffff82d080202cb2>] nvmx_handle_vmwrite+0x70/0xfe > (XEN) [<ffff82d0801fe98a>] vmx_vmexit_handler+0x1379/0x1c49 > (XEN) [<ffff82d08020427c>] vmx_asm_vmexit_handler+0x3c/0x120 > > Fix this by emulating VMfailInvalid if the address is invalid. So just like in patch 2 this is __vmptrld() not properly dealing with errors. Instead of doing checks in software which hardware does anyway, wouldn't it be better to introduce (and use here and there) vmptrld_safe()? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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