Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Fix single-step debugging

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Jan 25 2019 - 12:52:34 EST


On 21/01/19 13:48, Alexander Popov wrote:
> The single-step debugging of KVM guests on x86 is broken: if we run
> gdb 'stepi' command at the breakpoint when the guest interrupts are
> enabled, RIP always jumps to native_apic_mem_write(). Then other
> nasty effects follow.
>
> Long investigation showed that on Jun 7, 2017 the
> commit c8401dda2f0a00cd25c0 ("KVM: x86: fix singlestepping over syscall")
> introduced the kvm_run.debug corruption: kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep() can
> be called without X86_EFLAGS_TF set.
>
> Let's fix it. Please consider that for -stable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index f049ecf..9686068 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6407,8 +6407,7 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> toggle_interruptibility(vcpu, ctxt->interruptibility);
> vcpu->arch.emulate_regs_need_sync_to_vcpu = false;
> kvm_rip_write(vcpu, ctxt->eip);
> - if (r == EMULATE_DONE &&
> - (ctxt->tf || (vcpu->guest_debug & KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP)))
> + if (r == EMULATE_DONE && ctxt->tf)
> kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep(vcpu, &r);
> if (!ctxt->have_exception ||
> exception_type(ctxt->exception.vector) == EXCPT_TRAP)
>

Queued, with Cc to stable and the right "Fixes" trailer.

Paolo