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Sean Christopherson
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Bug the VM if KVM's emulator attempts to inject a bogus exception vector. The guest is likely doomed even if KVM continues on, and propagating a bad vector to the rest of KVM runs the risk of breaking other assumptions in KVM and thus triggering a more egregious bug. All existing users of emulate_exception() have hardcoded vector numbers (__load_segment_descriptor() uses a few different vectors, but they're all hardcoded), and future users are likely to follow suit, i.e. the change to emulate_exception() is a glorified nop. As for the ctxt->exception.vector check in x86_emulate_insn(), the few known times the WARN has been triggered in the past is when the field was not set when synthesizing a fault, i.e. for all intents and purposes the check protects against consumption of uninitialized data. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20220526210817.3428868-8-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.