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SubjectRe: Revert "x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()" crashes KVM guest
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On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 00:12 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
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> [    2.791518] Code: 8b 45 00 49 8b 7d 08 49 83 c5 18 31 d2 31 f6 ff
> d0 49 8b 45 00 48 85 c0 75 e9 eb b1 b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 ba
> 00 00 00 00 <0f> 30 e9 68 fd ff ff 9c 58 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 c5 fa
> 66 0f 1f

  23:   b9 49 00 00 00          mov    $0x49,%ecx
  28:   b8 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%eax
  2d:   ba 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%edx
  32:   0f 30                   wrmsr  

The faulting instruction is the wrmsr itself. That shouldn't happen; if
the CPUID bit indicates that the MSR exists, then it should exist.

The reverted patch did use the C __wrmsr() macro which contained a
fixup for this GP# but it was just a side-effect of the "cleanup" — it
wasn't intentional because that really shouldn't happen. That looks
like a qemu bug as first glance.[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature]
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