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Re: [Xen-devel] guest crash in wrmsr_hypervisor_regs if hypercall page is paged out



On Thu, May 02, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >>> On 02.05.13 at 17:20, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 02, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > 
> >> We can't put a vCPU to sleep at arbitrary points yet, which means
> >> that right now the caller of the function is responsible for the
> >> wait-and-retry - normally that would be in hypercall handlers, but
> >> obviously you need this here too.
> > 
> > Yes, thats the issue.
> > 
> > vmx_msr_write_intercept and svm_msr_write_intercept could just return
> > X86EMUL_RETRY to their callers.
> > 
> > How should emulate_privileged_op handle the wrmsr_hypervisor_regs
> > failure due to a paged page?
> 
> That's a PV only path, hence no need to consider paging. Just
> assert that the return value of X86EMUL_OKAY.

I sent a patch which fixes this issue for me. The 4.2 branch has
appearently the same issue.

Olaf

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