VirtualBox

Opened 14 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#6835 closed defect (fixed)

invalid rdmsr instructions do not cause a #GP fault in the guest

Reported by: Tracy Camp Owned by:
Component: VMM Version: VirtualBox 3.1.8
Keywords: MSR Cc:
Guest type: Windows Host type: Windows

Description

executing rdmsr with explicitly or implicitly invalid MSR values does not cause a #GP fault to be reflected to the guest. I primarily have noticed this within a device driver running under windows 2008r2, but this seems to be a more fundamental feature of the architecture that should not have an OS dependency.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Sander van Leeuwen, 14 years ago

Component: VMM/HWACCMVMM
priority: majorminor

True, but that's not likely to be the cause of any real world problems. Generating a #GP would cause an infinite amount of problems as many different CPU models support even more different MSRs.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The behavior was changed in VBox 4.3.x.

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