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[v3,01/33] KVM: VMX: Compare only a single byte for VMCS' "launched" in vCPU-run

Message ID 20190125154120.19385-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series KVM: VMX: Move vCPU-run to proper asm sub-routine | expand

Commit Message

Sean Christopherson Jan. 25, 2019, 3:40 p.m. UTC 
The vCPU-run asm blob does a manual comparison of a VMCS' launched
status to execute the correct VM-Enter instruction, i.e. VMLAUNCH vs.
VMRESUME.  The launched flag is a bool, which is a typedef of _Bool.
C99 does not define an exact size for _Bool, stating only that is must
be large enough to hold '0' and '1'.  Most, if not all, compilers use
a single byte for _Bool, including gcc[1].

Originally, 'launched' was of type 'int' and so the asm blob used 'cmpl'
to check the launch status.  When 'launched' was moved to be stored on a
per-VMCS basis, struct vcpu_vmx's "temporary" __launched flag was added
in order to avoid having to pass the current VMCS into the asm blob.
The new  '__launched' was defined as a 'bool' and not an 'int', but the
'cmp' instruction was not updated.

This has not caused any known problems, likely due to compilers aligning
variables to 4-byte or 8-byte boundaries and KVM zeroing out struct
vcpu_vmx during allocation.  I.e. vCPU-run accesses "junk" data, it just
happens to always be zero and so doesn't affect the result.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg01127.html

Fixes: d462b8192368 ("KVM: VMX: Keep list of loaded VMCSs, instead of vcpus")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 85683b0d9ad3..57735ef11179 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -6401,7 +6401,7 @@  static void __vmx_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		"mov %%" _ASM_AX", %%cr2 \n\t"
 		"3: \n\t"
 		/* Check if vmlaunch or vmresume is needed */
-		"cmpl $0, %c[launched](%%" _ASM_CX ") \n\t"
+		"cmpb $0, %c[launched](%%" _ASM_CX ") \n\t"
 		/* Load guest registers.  Don't clobber flags. */
 		"mov %c[rax](%%" _ASM_CX "), %%" _ASM_AX " \n\t"
 		"mov %c[rbx](%%" _ASM_CX "), %%" _ASM_BX " \n\t"