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    KVM: x86 emulator: Only allow VMCALL/VMMCALL trapped by #UD · 571008da
    Sheng Yang authored
    When executing a test program called "crashme", we found the KVM guest cannot
    survive more than ten seconds, then encounterd kernel panic. The basic concept
    of "crashme" is generating random assembly code and trying to execute it.
    
    After some fixes on emulator insn validity judgment, we found it's hard to
    get the current emulator handle the invalid instructions correctly, for the
    #UD trap for hypercall patching caused troubles. The problem is, if the opcode
    itself was OK, but combination of opcode and modrm_reg was invalid, and one
    operand of the opcode was memory (SrcMem or DstMem), the emulator will fetch
    the memory operand first rather than checking the validity, and may encounter
    an error there. For example, ".byte 0xfe, 0x34, 0xcd" has this problem.
    
    In the patch, we simply check that if the invalid opcode wasn't vmcall/vmmcall,
    then return from emulate_instruction() and inject a #UD to guest. With the
    patch, the guest had been running for more than 12 hours.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFeng (Eric) Liu <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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