KVM: x86: Bug the VM if the emulator generates a bogus exception vector

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Bug the VM if KVM's emulator attempts to inject a bogus exception vector.
The guest is likely doomed even if KVM continues on, and propagating a
bad vector to the rest of KVM runs the risk of breaking other assumptions
in KVM and thus triggering a more egregious bug.

All existing users of emulate_exception() have hardcoded vector numbers
(__load_segment_descriptor() uses a few different vectors, but they're
all hardcoded), and future users are likely to follow suit, i.e. the
change to emulate_exception() is a glorified nop.

As for the ctxt->exception.vector check in x86_emulate_insn(), the few
known times the WARN has been triggered in the past is when the field was
not set when synthesizing a fault, i.e. for all intents and purposes the
check protects against consumption of uninitialized data.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220526210817.3428868-8-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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Sean Christopherson 2022-05-26 21:08:16 +00:00 • committed by Paolo Bonzini

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