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    KVM: VMX: Compare only a single byte for VMCS' "launched" in vCPU-run · 61c08aa9
    Sean Christopherson authored
    The vCPU-run asm blob does a manual comparison of a VMCS' launched
    status to execute the correct VM-Enter instruction, i.e. VMLAUNCH vs.
    VMRESUME.  The launched flag is a bool, which is a typedef of _Bool.
    C99 does not define an exact size for _Bool, stating only that is must
    be large enough to hold '0' and '1'.  Most, if not all, compilers use
    a single byte for _Bool, including gcc[1].
    
    Originally, 'launched' was of type 'int' and so the asm blob used 'cmpl'
    to check the launch status.  When 'launched' was moved to be stored on a
    per-VMCS basis, struct vcpu_vmx's "temporary" __launched flag was added
    in order to avoid having to pass the current VMCS into the asm blob.
    The new  '__launched' was defined as a 'bool' and not an 'int', but the
    'cmp' instruction was not updated.
    
    This has not caused any known problems, likely due to compilers aligning
    variables to 4-byte or 8-byte boundaries and KVM zeroing out struct
    vcpu_vmx during allocation.  I.e. vCPU-run accesses "junk" data, it just
    happens to always be zero and so doesn't affect the result.
    
    [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg01127.html
    
    Fixes: d462b819 ("KVM: VMX: Keep list of loaded VMCSs, instead of vcpus")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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