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kvm: x86: Prevent sign extension of DR7 in guest debugging mode

Message ID 4D18A98F.3070303@web.de
State New
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Jan Kiszka Dec. 27, 2010, 2:58 p.m. UTC 
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

This unbreaks guest debugging when the 4th hardware breakpoint used for
guest debugging is a watchpoint of 4 or 8 byte lenght. The 31st bit of
DR7 is set in that case and used to cause a sign extension to the high
word which was breaking the guest state (vm entry failure).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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 target-i386/kvm.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Avi Kivity Dec. 27, 2010, 3:38 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 12/27/2010 04:58 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>
> This unbreaks guest debugging when the 4th hardware breakpoint used for
> guest debugging is a watchpoint of 4 or 8 byte lenght. The 31st bit of
> DR7 is set in that case and used to cause a sign extension to the high
> word which was breaking the guest state (vm entry failure).

Applied to uq/master, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
index 9a4bf98..218812a 100644
--- a/target-i386/kvm.c
+++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@  void kvm_arch_update_guest_debug(CPUState *env, struct kvm_guest_debug *dbg)
             dbg->arch.debugreg[n] = hw_breakpoint[n].addr;
             dbg->arch.debugreg[7] |= (2 << (n * 2)) |
                 (type_code[hw_breakpoint[n].type] << (16 + n*4)) |
-                (len_code[hw_breakpoint[n].len] << (18 + n*4));
+                ((uint32_t)len_code[hw_breakpoint[n].len] << (18 + n*4));
         }
     }
     /* Legal xcr0 for loading */