This has been broken for a long time: it broke first in 2.6.35, then was
almost fixed in 2.6.36 but this one-liner slipped through the cracks.
The bug shows up as an infinite loop in Windows 7 (and newer) boot on
32-bit hosts without EPT.
Windows uses CMPXCHG8B to write to page tables, which causes a
page fault if running without EPT; the emulator is then called from
kvm_mmu_page_fault. The loop then happens if the higher 4 bytes are
not 0; the common case for this is that the NX bit (bit 63) is 1.
Fixes: 6550e1f165
Fixes: 16518d5ada
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.35+
Reported-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Tested-by: Erik Rull <erik.rull@rdsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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