Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Bug in AMD64 emulation Was: [AMD64] Possible problem with the DF flag during the SYSCALL instruction

[Jakub Jermar]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mar 25, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Jakub Jermar wrote:
>
> > as no one has picked my previous report up yet, I am resending my 
> > patch again.  The patch fixes a bug in the way QEMU emulates AMD64 
> > instruction called SYSCALL.  The problem appears to be stale DF variable.
>
> Sorry I didn't have a look at it before. Good catch though!
...
> I believe you're searching for load_eflags(), which automatically 
> updates the DF flag. Take a look at the SVM code for that issue as well 
> (helper.c:helper_vmrun).

The included patch updates the DF flag in helper_syscall() using the 
load_eflags().  I thought of doing this as simply as possible and here's 
 probably the result.  When the first parameter of load_eflags() has 
the same value as env->eflags, the second argument doesn't matter, 
that's why it is 0.

Will you consider this for applying?

Thanks,
Jakub

diff -ru qemu-0.9.1/target-i386/helper.c qemu-0.9.1-jj/target-i386/helper.c
--- qemu-0.9.1/target-i386/helper.c     2008-01-06 20:38:45.000000000 +0100
+++ qemu-0.9.1-jj/target-i386/helper.c  2008-03-27 12:27:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@
                                DESC_S_MASK |
                                DESC_W_MASK | DESC_A_MASK);
         env->eflags &= ~env->fmask;
+        load_eflags(env->eflags, 0);
         if (code64)
             env->eip = env->lstar;
         else