Patch "KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
kvm-x86-fix-missed-hardware-breakpoints.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:50:23 +0100
Subject: KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

commit 4e422bdd2f849d98fffccbc3295c2f0996097fb3 upstream.

Sometimes when setting a breakpoint a process doesn't stop on it. This is because the debug registers are not loaded correctly on VCPU load.

The following simple reproducer from Oleg Nesterov tries using debug registers in both the host and the guest, for example by running "./bp 0 1" on the host and "./bp 14 15" under QEMU.

    #include <unistd.h>
    #include <signal.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>
    #include <sys/ptrace.h>
    #include <sys/user.h>
    #include <asm/debugreg.h>
    #include <assert.h>

    #define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER)

    unsigned long encode_dr7(int drnum, int enable, unsigned int type, unsigned int len)
    {
        unsigned long dr7;

        dr7 = ((len | type) & 0xf)
            << (DR_CONTROL_SHIFT + drnum * DR_CONTROL_SIZE);
        if (enable)
            dr7 |= (DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE << (drnum * DR_ENABLE_SIZE));

        return dr7;
    }

    int write_dr(int pid, int dr, unsigned long val)
    {
        return ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, pid,
                offsetof (struct user, u_debugreg[dr]),
                val);
    }

    void set_bp(pid_t pid, void *addr)
    {
        unsigned long dr7;
        assert(write_dr(pid, 0, (long)addr) == 0);
        dr7 = encode_dr7(0, 1, DR_RW_EXECUTE, DR_LEN_1);
        assert(write_dr(pid, 7, dr7) == 0);
    }

    void *get_rip(int pid)
    {
        return (void*)ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, pid,
                offsetof(struct user, regs.rip), 0);
    }

    void test(int nr)
    {
        void *bp_addr = &&label + nr, *bp_hit;
        int pid;

        printf("test bp %d\n", nr);
        assert(nr < 16); // see 16 asm nops below

        pid = fork();
        if (!pid) {
            assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0);
            kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
            for (;;) {
                label: asm (
                    "nop; nop; nop; nop;"
                    "nop; nop; nop; nop;"
                    "nop; nop; nop; nop;"
                    "nop; nop; nop; nop;"
                );
            }
        }

        assert(pid == wait(NULL));
        set_bp(pid, bp_addr);

        for (;;) {
            assert(ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0) == 0);
            assert(pid == wait(NULL));

            bp_hit = get_rip(pid);
            if (bp_hit != bp_addr)
                fprintf(stderr, "ERR!! hit wrong bp %ld != %d\n",
                    bp_hit - &&label, nr);
        }
    }

    int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
    {
        while (--argc) {
            int nr = atoi(*++argv);
            if (!fork())
                test(nr);
        }

        while (wait(NULL) > 0)
            ;
        return 0;
    }

---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -2752,6 +2752,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu
 	}
 
 	kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu);
+	vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs |= KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD;
 }
 
 void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-fix-nested-vpid-for-old-kvm-guests.patch queue-4.5/kvm-x86-fix-missed-hardware-breakpoints.patch queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-avoid-guest-hang-on-invalid-invvpid-instruction.patch queue-4.5/kvm-i8254-change-pit-discard-tick-policy.patch queue-4.5/kvm-fix-spin_lock_init-order-on-x86.patch queue-4.5/kvm-vmx-avoid-guest-hang-on-invalid-invept-instruction.patch