[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "KVM: x86: Inter-privilege level ret emulation is not implemeneted" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    KVM: x86: Inter-privilege level ret emulation is not implemeneted

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From e4436b22bb81f49835b3bb70459c1fe68589a648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nadav Amit <namit at cs.technion.ac.il>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 16:12:59 +0300
Subject: KVM: x86: Inter-privilege level ret emulation is not implemeneted

commit 9e8919ae793f4edfaa29694a70f71a515ae9942a upstream.

Return unhandlable error on inter-privilege level ret instruction.  This is
since the current emulation does not check the privilege level correctly when
loading the CS, and does not pop RSP/SS as needed.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit at cs.technion.ac.il>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
index 07ffca0..7bff3e2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -2006,6 +2006,7 @@ static int em_ret_far(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 {
 	int rc;
 	unsigned long cs;
+	int cpl = ctxt->ops->cpl(ctxt);

 	rc = emulate_pop(ctxt, &ctxt->_eip, ctxt->op_bytes);
 	if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
@@ -2015,6 +2016,9 @@ static int em_ret_far(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
 	rc = emulate_pop(ctxt, &cs, ctxt->op_bytes);
 	if (rc != X86EMUL_CONTINUE)
 		return rc;
+	/* Outer-privilege level return is not implemented */
+	if (ctxt->mode >= X86EMUL_MODE_PROT16 && (cs & 3) > cpl)
+		return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE;
 	rc = load_segment_descriptor(ctxt, (u16)cs, VCPU_SREG_CS);
 	return rc;
 }
--
1.9.1