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Commit 04789b66 authored by Liran Alon's avatar Liran Alon Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: x86: Emulate only IN/OUT instructions when accessing VMware backdoor



Access to VMware backdoor ports is done by one of the IN/OUT/INS/OUTS
instructions. These ports must be allowed access even if TSS I/O
permission bitmap don't allow it.

To handle this, VMX/SVM will be changed in future commits
to intercept #GP which was raised by such access and
handle it by calling x86 emulator to emulate instruction.
If it was one of these instructions, the x86 emulator already handles
it correctly (Since commit "KVM: x86: Always allow access to VMware
backdoor I/O ports") by not checking these ports against TSS I/O
permission bitmap.

One may wonder why checking for specific instructions is necessary
as we can just forward all #GPs to the x86 emulator.
There are multiple reasons for doing so:

1. We don't want the x86 emulator to be reached easily
by guest by just executing an instruction that raises #GP as that
exposes the x86 emulator as a bigger attack surface.

2. The x86 emulator is incomplete and therefore certain instructions
that can cause #GP cannot be emulated. Such an example is "INT x"
(opcode 0xcd) which reaches emulate_int() which can only emulate
the instruction if vCPU is in real-mode.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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