Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/11] target-arm/translate-a64: Fix wrong mmu_idx usage for LDT/STT

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 06:55:09PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The LDT/STT (load/store unprivileged) instruction decode was using
> the wrong MMU index value. This meant that instead of these insns
> being "always access as if user-mode regardless of current privilege"
> they were "always access as if kernel-mode regardless of current
> privilege". This went unnoticed because AArch64 Linux doesn't use
> these instructions.
> 
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Bellows <address@hidden>


Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <address@hidden>


> ---
> I'm not counting this as a security issue because I'm assuming
> nobody treats TCG guests as a security boundary (certainly I
> would not recommend doing so...)
> ---
>  target-arm/translate-a64.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-arm/translate-a64.c b/target-arm/translate-a64.c
> index 80d2359..dac2f63 100644
> --- a/target-arm/translate-a64.c
> +++ b/target-arm/translate-a64.c
> @@ -2107,7 +2107,7 @@ static void disas_ldst_reg_imm9(DisasContext *s, 
> uint32_t insn)
>          }
>      } else {
>          TCGv_i64 tcg_rt = cpu_reg(s, rt);
> -        int memidx = is_unpriv ? 1 : get_mem_index(s);
> +        int memidx = is_unpriv ? MMU_USER_IDX : get_mem_index(s);
>  
>          if (is_store) {
>              do_gpr_st_memidx(s, tcg_rt, tcg_addr, size, memidx);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>