[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 1/5] KVM: arm64: Hide system instruction access to Trace registers

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Mon Apr 5 17:05:22 BST 2021


From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

[ Upstream commit 1d676673d665fd2162e7e466dcfbe5373bfdb73e ]

Currently we advertise the ID_AA6DFR0_EL1.TRACEVER for the guest,
when the trace register accesses are trapped (CPTR_EL2.TTA == 1).
So, the guest will get an undefined instruction, if trusts the
ID registers and access one of the trace registers.
Lets be nice to the guest and hide the feature to avoid
unexpected behavior.

Even though this can be done at KVM sysreg emulation layer,
we do this by removing the TRACEVER from the sanitised feature
register field. This is fine as long as the ETM drivers
can handle the individual trace units separately, even
when there are differences among the CPUs.

Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323120647.454211-2-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 174aa12fb8b1..1481e18aa5ca 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64dfr0[] = {
 	 * of support.
 	 */
 	S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_SHIFT, 4, 0),
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_TRACEVER_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_DEBUGVER_SHIFT, 4, 0x6),
 	ARM64_FTR_END,
 };
-- 
2.30.2




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