[PATCH 5/5] KVM: RISC-V: reset smstateen CSRs
Anup Patel
anup at brainfault.org
Fri Apr 25 05:38:32 PDT 2025
On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> Not resetting smstateen is a potential security hole, because VU might
> be able to access state that VS does not properly context-switch.
>
> Fixes: 81f0f314fec9 ("RISCV: KVM: Add sstateen0 context save/restore")
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com>
This should be the first patch of the series which can
be applied independently.
I have rebased and queued it as a fix for Linux-6.15.
Regards,
Anup
> ---
> arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c
> index 4578863a39e3..ac0fa50bc489 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static void kvm_riscv_vcpu_context_reset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
> memset(cntx, 0, sizeof(*cntx));
> memset(csr, 0, sizeof(*csr));
> + memset(&vcpu->arch.smstateen_csr, 0, sizeof(vcpu->arch.smstateen_csr));
>
> /* Restore datap as it's not a part of the guest context. */
> cntx->vector.datap = vector_datap;
> --
> 2.48.1
>
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