x86emul: tighten CLFLUSH emulation While for us it's not as bad as it was for Linux, their commit 13e457e0ee ("KVM: x86: Emulator does not decode clflush well", by Nadav Amit ) nevertheless points out two shortcomings in our code: opcode 0F AE /7 is clflush only when it uses a memory mode (otherwise it's SFENCE) and when there's no REP prefix (an operand size prefix is fine, as that's CLFLUSHOPT). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c @@ -4400,7 +4400,9 @@ x86_emulate( case 0xae: /* Grp15 */ switch ( modrm_reg & 7 ) { - case 7: /* clflush */ + case 7: /* clflush{,opt} */ + fail_if(modrm_mod == 3); + fail_if(rep_prefix()); fail_if(ops->wbinvd == NULL); if ( (rc = ops->wbinvd(ctxt)) != 0 ) goto done;