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KVM: selftests: Load RAX with -EFAULT before Hyper-V hypercall
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Load RAX with -EFAULT prior to making a Hyper-V hypercall so that tests
can't get false negatives due to the compiler coincidentally loading the
"right" value into RAX, i.e. to ensure that _KVM_ and not the compiler
is correctly clearing RAX on a successful hypercall.

Note, initializing *hv_status (in C code) to -EFAULT is not sufficient
to avoid false negatives, as the compiler can still "clobber" RAX and
thus load garbage into *hv_status if the hypercall faults (or if KVM
doesn't set RAX).

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220922062451.2927010-1-vipinsh@google.com
[sean: move to separate patch, massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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Vipin Sharma authored and Sean Christopherson committed Sep 28, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ static inline uint8_t hypercall(u64 control, vm_vaddr_t input_address,
: "=a" (*hv_status),
"+c" (control), "+d" (input_address),
KVM_ASM_SAFE_OUTPUTS(vector)
: [output_address] "r"(output_address)
: [output_address] "r"(output_address),
"a" (-EFAULT)
: "cc", "memory", "r8", KVM_ASM_SAFE_CLOBBERS);
return vector;
}
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