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    KVM: x86: Exit to userspace if emulation prepared a completion callback · adbfb12d
    Hou Wenlong authored
    em_rdmsr() and em_wrmsr() return X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED if MSR accesses
    required an exit to userspace. However, x86_emulate_insn() doesn't return
    X86EMUL_*, so x86_emulate_instruction() doesn't directly act on
    X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED; instead, it looks for other signals to differentiate
    between PIO, MMIO, etc. causing RDMSR/WRMSR emulation not to
    exit to userspace now.
    
    Nevertheless, if the userspace_msr_exit_test testcase in selftests
    is changed to test RDMSR/WRMSR with a forced emulation prefix,
    the test passes.  What happens is that first userspace exit
    information is filled but the userspace exit does not happen.
    Because x86_emulate_instruction() returns 1, the guest retries
    the instruction---but this time RIP has already been adjusted
    past the forced emulation prefix, so the guest executes RDMSR/WRMSR
    and the userspace exit finally happens.
    
    Since the X86EMUL_IO_NEEDED path has provided a complete_userspace_io
    callback, x86_emulate_instruction() can just return 0 if the
    callback is not NULL. Then RDMSR/WRMSR instruction emulation will
    exit to userspace directly, without the RDMSR/WRMSR vmexit.
    
    Fixes: 1ae09954 ("KVM: x86: Allow deflecting unknown MSR accesses to user space")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHou Wenlong <houwenlong93@linux.alibaba.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <56f9df2ee5c05a81155e2be366c9dc1f7adc8817.1635842679.git.houwenlong93@linux.alibaba.com>
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