Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] target-i386: get CPL from SS.DPL

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:59:25PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> CS.RPL is not equal to the CPL in the few instructions between
> setting CR0.PE and reloading CS.  We get this right in the common
> case, because writes to CR0 do not modify the CPL, but it would
> not be enough if an SMI comes exactly during that brief period.
> Were this to happen, the RSM instruction would erroneously set
> CPL to the low two bits of the real-mode selector; and if they are
> not 00, the next instruction fetch cannot access the code segment
> and causes a triple fault.
> 
> However, SS.DPL *is* always equal to the CPL.  In real processors
> (AMD only) there is a weird case of SYSRET setting SS.DPL=SS.RPL
> from the STAR register while forcing CPL=3, but we do not emulate
> that.

I was in the process of testing something else, when I encountered a
problem with an old MSDOS 6.22 floppy I had.  I tracked it down to an
error in one of the commits I did in this series (I sent a fix in a
separate email for it).

Unfortunately, after I fixed the problem in my patch, your patch above
breaks it again.  I think it's another VM86 thing.

Steps to reproduce:

1 - grab the DOS 6.22 floppy from: http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

2 - boot it up and add emm386.exe to config.sys ("edit config.sys" and
add "DEVICE=EMM386.EXE" on the second line of the file).

3 - reboot with modified config.sys

-Kevin