Nested early checks does a manual comparison of a VMCS' launched status
in its asm blob to execute the correct VM-Enter instruction, i.e.
VMLAUNCH vs. VMRESUME. The launched flag is a bool, which is a typedef
of _Bool. C99 does not define an exact size for _Bool, stating only
that is must be large enough to hold '0' and '1'. Most, if not all,
compilers use a single byte for _Bool, including gcc[1].
The use of 'cmpl' instead of 'cmpb' was not deliberate, but rather the
result of a copy-paste as the asm blob was directly derived from the asm
blob for vCPU-run.
This has not caused any known problems, likely due to compilers aligning
variables to 4-byte or 8-byte boundaries and KVM zeroing out struct
vcpu_vmx during allocation. I.e. vCPU-run accesses "junk" data, it just
happens to always be zero and so doesn't affect the result.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg01127.html
Fixes: 52017608da ("KVM: nVMX: add option to perform early consistency checks via H/W")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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