KVM: VMX: Allow real mode emulation using vm86 with dpl=0
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:07:02 +0000 (17:07 +0300)
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:02:20 +0000 (20:02 -0300)
Real mode is always entered from protected mode with dpl=0.  Since
the dpl doesn't affect execution, and we already override it to 3
in the vmcs (as vmx requires), we can allow execution in that state.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

index 88eeb40..4811d91 100644 (file)
@@ -3317,7 +3317,7 @@ static bool rmode_segment_valid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int seg)
                return false;
        if (var.limit != 0xffff)
                return false;
-       if (ar != 0xf3)
+       if ((ar | (3 << AR_DPL_SHIFT)) != 0xf3)
                return false;
 
        return true;