KVM: emulate: fix CMPXCHG8B on 32-bit hosts
commit 4ff6f8e6 upstream. This has been broken for a long time: it broke first in 2.6.35, then was almost fixed in 2.6.36 but this one-liner slipped through the cracks. The bug shows up as an infinite loop in Windows 7 (and newer) boot on 32-bit hosts without EPT. Windows uses CMPXCHG8B to write to page tables, which causes a page fault if running without EPT; the emulator is then called from kvm_mmu_page_fault. The loop then happens if the higher 4 bytes are not 0; the common case for this is that the NX bit (bit 63) is 1. Fixes: 6550e1f1 Fixes: 16518d5aReported-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de> Tested-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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