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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index e624f4c53021..497d14e515ed 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -1695,7 +1695,17 @@ static void vmx_queue_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) kvm_deliver_exception_payload(vcpu); if (has_error_code) { - vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_EXCEPTION_ERROR_CODE, error_code); + /* + * Despite the error code being architecturally defined as 32 + * bits, and the VMCS field being 32 bits, Intel CPUs and thus + * VMX don't actually supporting setting bits 31:16. Hardware + * will (should) never provide a bogus error code, but AMD CPUs + * do generate error codes with bits 31:16 set, and so KVM's + * ABI lets userspace shove in arbitrary 32-bit values. Drop + * the upper bits to avoid VM-Fail, losing information that + * does't really exist is preferable to killing the VM. + */ + vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_EXCEPTION_ERROR_CODE, (u16)error_code); intr_info |= INTR_INFO_DELIVER_CODE_MASK; } |