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KVM: x86: Fix single-step debugging
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The single-step debugging of KVM guests on x86 is broken: if we run
gdb 'stepi' command at the breakpoint when the guest interrupts are
enabled, RIP always jumps to native_apic_mem_write(). Then other
nasty effects follow.

Long investigation showed that on Jun 7, 2017 the
commit c8401dd ("KVM: x86: fix singlestepping over syscall")
introduced the kvm_run.debug corruption: kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep() can
be called without X86_EFLAGS_TF set.

Let's fix it. Please consider that for -stable.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c8401dd ("KVM: x86: fix singlestepping over syscall")
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Alexander Popov authored and Paolo Bonzini committed Jan 25, 2019
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
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Expand Up @@ -6480,8 +6480,7 @@ int x86_emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
toggle_interruptibility(vcpu, ctxt->interruptibility);
vcpu->arch.emulate_regs_need_sync_to_vcpu = false;
kvm_rip_write(vcpu, ctxt->eip);
if (r == EMULATE_DONE &&
(ctxt->tf || (vcpu->guest_debug & KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP)))
if (r == EMULATE_DONE && ctxt->tf)
kvm_vcpu_do_singlestep(vcpu, &r);
if (!ctxt->have_exception ||
exception_type(ctxt->exception.vector) == EXCPT_TRAP)
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