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



On 22/11/16 13:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 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,

How about offsetof(typeof(tss), trace) - offsetof(typeof(tss), eip)?

It avoids some casts and void pointer arithmetic.

Either way, Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

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