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    KVM: nVMX: Ignore limit checks on VMX instructions using flat segments · 34333cc6
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Regarding segments with a limit==0xffffffff, the SDM officially states:
    
        When the effective limit is FFFFFFFFH (4 GBytes), these accesses may
        or may not cause the indicated exceptions.  Behavior is
        implementation-specific and may vary from one execution to another.
    
    In practice, all CPUs that support VMX ignore limit checks for "flat
    segments", i.e. an expand-up data or code segment with base=0 and
    limit=0xffffffff.  This is subtly different than wrapping the effective
    address calculation based on the address size, as the flat segment
    behavior also applies to accesses that would wrap the 4g boundary, e.g.
    a 4-byte access starting at 0xffffffff will access linear addresses
    0xffffffff, 0x0, 0x1 and 0x2.
    
    Fixes: f9eb4af6 ("KVM: nVMX: VMX instructions: add checks for #GP/#SS exceptions")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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