If the RFLAGS.RF is set, then no #DB should occur on instruction breakpoints.
However, the KVM emulator injects #DB regardless to RFLAGS.RF. This patch fixes
this behavior. KVM, however, still appears not to update RFLAGS.RF correctly,
regardless of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <na...@cs.technion.ac.il>
---
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index fae064f..e341a81 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -5168,7 +5168,8 @@ static bool kvm_vcpu_check_breakpoint(struct kvm_vcpu
*vcpu, int *r)
}
}
- if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.dr7 & DR7_BP_EN_MASK)) {
+ if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.dr7 & DR7_BP_EN_MASK) &&
+ !(kvm_get_rflags(vcpu) & X86_EFLAGS_RF)) {
dr6 = kvm_vcpu_check_hw_bp(eip, 0,
vcpu->arch.dr7,
vcpu->arch.db);
--
1.9.1
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