[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Mar 9 18:01:05 GMT 2021


On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 16:45:05 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> It recently became apparent that the ARMv8 architecture has interesting
> rules regarding attributes being used when fetching instructions
> if the MMU is off at Stage-1.
> 
> In this situation, the CPU is allowed to fetch from the PoC and
> allocate into the I-cache (unless the memory is mapped with
> the XN attribute at Stage-2).
> 
> [...]

Applied to fixes, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM
      commit: 01dc9262ff5797b675c32c0c6bc682777d23de05

Cheers,

	M.
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