[PATCH] x86/svm: mandatory update VMCB nextrip for soft interrupts
Chunjie Zhu <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 03:17:24 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel |
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Signed-off-by: Chunjie Zhu <[email protected]> --- xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c index b06124c2c9ed..815713b8b506 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c @@ -449,7 +449,14 @@ static int nsvm_vmcb_prepare4vmrun(struct vcpu *v, struct cpu_user_regs *regs) n2vmcb->virt_ext.bytes = n1vmcb->virt_ext.bytes | ns_vmcb->virt_ext.bytes; - /* NextRIP - only evaluated on #VMEXIT. */ + /* next_rip is consumed on VMRUN as the return address pushed on the + * stack·for·injected·soft·exceptions/interrupts. This assignment + * statement must be enforced, otherwise, it might cause vcpu wedge. + * + * APM Vol.2 Event Injection does not specifies what happens if NEXTRIP + * holds an invalid/garbage value. + */ + n2vmcb->nextrip = ns_vmcb->nextrip; /* * VMCB Save State Area -- 2.34.1