Just like (in protected mode) reads may not go to exec-only segments and writes may not go to non-writable ones, insn fetches may not access data segments.
Fixes: 623e83716791 ("hvm: Support hardware task switching") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c @@ -2551,6 +2551,9 @@ bool hvm_vcpu_virtual_to_linear( */ ASSERT(seg < x86_seg_none); + /* However, check that insn fetches only ever specify CS. */ + ASSERT(access_type != hvm_access_insn_fetch || seg == x86_seg_cs); + if ( !(v->arch.hvm.guest_cr[0] & X86_CR0_PE) ) { /* @@ -2615,10 +2618,17 @@ bool hvm_vcpu_virtual_to_linear( if ( (reg->type & 0xa) == 0x8 ) goto out; /* execute-only code segment */ break; + case hvm_access_write: if ( (reg->type & 0xa) != 0x2 ) goto out; /* not a writable data segment */ break; + + case hvm_access_insn_fetch: + if ( !(reg->type & 0x8) ) + goto out; /* not a code segment */ + break; + default: break; }