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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: x86: get CPL from SS.DPL
Il 26/05/2014 00:58, Wei Huang ha scritto:
> If so , my question: is there other special cases similar to task switch
> which can break patch 4?

I don't think so. CPL can only change when SS is loaded, i.e. for
inter-privilege transfers that aren't far calls or far jumps to a
conforming code segment.

I count only three such cases (protected mode int, protected mode iret,
call gate), none of which is implemented in the KVM emulator. In fact,
the emulator doesn't implement task gates either---luckily all
information about the destination task is provided by the processor in
the VMCB or VMCS.

Paolo


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