The address translation logic in get_physical_address() will currently
truncate physical addresses to 32 bits unless long mode is enabled.
This is incorrect when using physical address extensions (PAE) outside
of long mode, with the result that a 32-bit operating system using PAE
to access memory above 4G will experience undefined behaviour.
The truncation code was originally introduced in commit 33dfdb5 ("x86:
only allow real mode to access 32bit without LMA"), where it applied
only to translations performed while paging is disabled (and so cannot
affect guests using PAE).
Commit 9828198 ("target/i386: Add MMU_PHYS_IDX and MMU_NESTED_IDX")
rearranged the code such that the truncation also applied to the use
of MMU_PHYS_IDX and MMU_NESTED_IDX. Commit 4a1e9d4 ("target/i386: Use
atomic operations for pte updates") brought this truncation into scope
for page table entry accesses, and is the first commit for which a
Windows 10 32-bit guest will reliably fail to boot if memory above 4G
is present.
The original truncation code (now ten years old) appears to be wholly
redundant in the current codebase. With paging disabled, the CPU
cannot be in long mode and so the maximum address size for any
executed instruction is 32 bits. This will already cause the linear
address to be truncated to 32 bits, and there is therefore no way for
get_physical_address() to be asked to translate an address outside of
the 32-bit range.
Fix by removing the address truncation in get_physical_address().
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2040
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mc...@ipxe.org>
---
target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
b/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
index 5b86f439ad..707f7326d4 100644
--- a/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
+++ b/target/i386/tcg/sysemu/excp_helper.c
@@ -582,12 +582,6 @@ static bool get_physical_address(CPUX86State *env, vaddr
addr,
/* Translation disabled. */
out->paddr = addr & x86_get_a20_mask(env);
-#ifdef TARGET_X86_64
- if (!(env->hflags & HF_LMA_MASK)) {
- /* Without long mode we can only address 32bits in real mode */
- out->paddr = (uint32_t)out->paddr;
- }
-#endif
out->prot = PAGE_READ | PAGE_WRITE | PAGE_EXEC;
out->page_size = TARGET_PAGE_SIZE;
return true;
--
2.43.0
