[PATCH 02/16] KVM: arm64: Don't issue CMOs when the physical address is invalid

[Marc Zyngier]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:10:45 +0100,
Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 05:31:45PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Make sure we don't issue CMOs when mapping something that
> > is not a memory address in the S2 page tables.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 16 ++++++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > index 05321f4165e3..a5874ebd0354 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> > @@ -619,12 +619,16 @@ static int stage2_map_walker_try_leaf(u64 addr, u64 end, u32 level,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	/* Perform CMOs before installation of the guest stage-2 PTE */
> > -	if (mm_ops->dcache_clean_inval_poc && stage2_pte_cacheable(pgt, new))
> > -		mm_ops->dcache_clean_inval_poc(kvm_pte_follow(new, mm_ops),
> > -						granule);
> > -
> > -	if (mm_ops->icache_inval_pou && stage2_pte_executable(new))
> > -		mm_ops->icache_inval_pou(kvm_pte_follow(new, mm_ops), granule);
> > +	if (kvm_phys_is_valid(phys)) {
> > +		if (mm_ops->dcache_clean_inval_poc &&
> > +		    stage2_pte_cacheable(pgt, new))
> > +			mm_ops->dcache_clean_inval_poc(kvm_pte_follow(new,
> > +								      mm_ops),
> > +						       granule);
> > +		if (mm_ops->icache_inval_pou && stage2_pte_executable(new))
> > +			mm_ops->icache_inval_pou(kvm_pte_follow(new, mm_ops),
> > +						 granule);
> > +	}
> 
> Given that this check corresponds to checking the validity of 'new', I
> wonder whether we'd be better off pushing the validity checks down into
> stage2_pte_{cacheable,executable}()?
> 
> I.e. have stage2_pte_cacheable() return false if !kvm_pte_valid()

That would work just as well. I'll update the patch.

Thanks,

	M.

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