x86/vmx: Don't clobber %dr6 while debugging state is lazy
authorAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:26:53 +0000 (11:26 +0200)
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:26:53 +0000 (11:26 +0200)
c/s 4f36452b63 introduced a write to %dr6 in the #DB intercept case, but the
guests debug registers may be lazy at this point, at which point the guests
later attempt to read %dr6 will discard this value and use the older stale
value.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
master commit: 3cdac2805692c7accde2f405d81cc0be799aee48
master date: 2018-07-19 14:06:48 +0100

xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c

index 610c8d6eb9993700cb68e819931927e2b6e40034..7189820bfc23f2d8c06b8b0bb707952a45b62105 100644 (file)
@@ -3701,6 +3701,7 @@ void vmx_vmexit_handler(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
              */
             __vmread(EXIT_QUALIFICATION, &exit_qualification);
             HVMTRACE_1D(TRAP_DEBUG, exit_qualification);
+            __restore_debug_registers(v);
             write_debugreg(6, exit_qualification | DR_STATUS_RESERVED_ONE);
             if ( !v->domain->debugger_attached )
             {