[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/3] x86/HVM: limit writes to outgoing TSS during task switch

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

The only fields modified are EIP, EFLAGS, GPRs, and segment selectors.
CR3 in particular is not supposed to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
@@ -2952,7 +2952,6 @@ void hvm_task_switch(
     if ( taskswitch_reason == TSW_iret )
         eflags &= ~X86_EFLAGS_NT;
 
-    tss.cr3    = v->arch.hvm_vcpu.guest_cr[3];
     tss.eip    = regs->eip;
     tss.eflags = eflags;
     tss.eax    = regs->eax;
@@ -2979,8 +2978,10 @@ void hvm_task_switch(
     hvm_get_segment_register(v, x86_seg_ldtr, &segr);
     tss.ldt = segr.sel;
 
-    rc = hvm_copy_to_guest_virt(
-        prev_tr.base, &tss, sizeof(tss), PFEC_page_present);
+    rc = hvm_copy_to_guest_virt(prev_tr.base + offsetof(typeof(tss), eip),
+                                &tss.eip,
+                                (void *)&tss.trace - (void *)&tss.eip,
+                                PFEC_page_present);
     if ( rc != HVMCOPY_okay )
         goto out;

Attachment: x86-HVM-task-switch-no-CR3.patch
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