2014-10-03 01:10+0300, Nadav Amit:
> Once an instruction crosses a page boundary, the size read from the second 
> page
> disregards the common case that part of the operand resides on the first page.
> As a result, fetch of long insturctions may fail, and thereby cause the
> decoding to fail as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <na...@cs.technion.ac.il>
> ---

Good catch, was it thanks to an exhaustive test-suite?

Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>

>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> index 694dfa7..b2e8aba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> @@ -751,8 +751,10 @@ static int __do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt 
> *ctxt, int op_size)
>  static __always_inline int do_insn_fetch_bytes(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt,
>                                              unsigned size)
>  {
> -     if (unlikely(ctxt->fetch.end - ctxt->fetch.ptr < size))
> -             return __do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, size);
> +     unsigned done_size = ctxt->fetch.end - ctxt->fetch.ptr;
> +
> +     if (unlikely(done_size < size))
> +             return __do_insn_fetch_bytes(ctxt, size - done_size);
>       else
>               return X86EMUL_CONTINUE;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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