[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Move __hyp_set_vectors out of .hyp.text
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Thu Jan 28 13:11:52 EST 2021
On 2021-01-28 17:38, Quentin Perret wrote:
> The .hyp.text section is supposed to be reserved for the nVHE EL2 code.
> However, there is currently one occurrence of EL1 executing code
> located
> in .hyp.text when calling __hyp_{re}set_vectors(), which happen to sit
> next to the EL2 stub vectors. While not a problem yet, such patterns
> will cause issues when removing the host kernel from the TCB, so a
> cleaner split would be preferable.
>
> Fix this by delimiting the end of the .hyp.text section in hyp-stub.S.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> b/arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> index 160f5881a0b7..8a60f9c586bb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/hyp-stub.S
> @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ SYM_CODE_END(\label)
> invalid_vector el1_fiq_invalid
> invalid_vector el1_error_invalid
>
> + .popsection
> +
> /*
> * __hyp_set_vectors: Call this after boot to set the initial
> hypervisor
> * vectors as part of hypervisor installation. On an SMP system, this
> should
Thanks for tracking this one down, Quentin.
Catalin, Will: should you want to take this one via the arm64 tree,
please add my
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz:kernel.org>
Thanks,
M.
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