x86emul: defer injection of #DB Move the raising of the single step trap until after registers were updated. This should probably have been that way from the beginning, to allow the inject_hw_exception() hook to see updated register state (in case it cares) - it's a trap, after all. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/x86_emulate/x86_emulate.c @@ -2267,6 +2267,7 @@ x86_emulate( struct x86_emulate_state state; int rc; uint8_t b, d; + bool tf = ctxt->regs->eflags & EFLG_TF; struct operand src = { .reg = REG_POISON }; struct operand dst = { .reg = REG_POISON }; enum x86_swint_type swint_type; @@ -5161,11 +5162,6 @@ x86_emulate( } no_writeback: - /* Inject #DB if single-step tracing was enabled at instruction start. */ - if ( (ctxt->regs->eflags & EFLG_TF) && (rc == X86EMUL_OKAY) && - (ops->inject_hw_exception != NULL) ) - rc = ops->inject_hw_exception(EXC_DB, -1, ctxt) ? : X86EMUL_EXCEPTION; - /* Commit shadow register state. */ _regs.eflags &= ~EFLG_RF; @@ -5175,6 +5171,10 @@ x86_emulate( *ctxt->regs = _regs; + /* Inject #DB if single-step tracing was enabled at instruction start. */ + if ( tf && (rc == X86EMUL_OKAY) && ops->inject_hw_exception ) + rc = ops->inject_hw_exception(EXC_DB, -1, ctxt) ? : X86EMUL_EXCEPTION; + done: _put_fpu(); put_stub(stub);