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Subject[PATCH 0/3] Infinite loops in microcode while running guests
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Yes, these can happen.  The issue is that benign exceptions are
delivered serially, but two of them (#DB and #AC) can also happen
during exception delivery itself. The subsequent infinite stream
of exceptions causes the processor to never exit guest mode.

Paolo

Eric Northup (1):
KVM: x86: work around infinite loop in microcode when #AC is delivered

Paolo Bonzini (2):
KVM: svm: unconditionally intercept #DB
KVM: x86: rename update_db_bp_intercept to update_bp_intercept

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 22 +++++++++++-----------
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 7 +++++--
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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1.8.3.1



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