[PATCH v2 01/19] KVM: arm64: Always start with clearing SVE flag on load

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Jun 10 02:28:20 PDT 2022


On each vcpu load, we set the KVM_ARM64_HOST_SVE_ENABLED
flag if SVE is enabled for EL0 on the host. This is used to restore
the correct state on vpcu put.

However, it appears that nothing ever clears this flag. Once
set, it will stick until the vcpu is destroyed, which has the
potential to spuriously enable SVE for userspace.

We probably never saw the issue because no VMM uses SVE, but
that's still pretty bad. Unconditionally clearing the flag
on vcpu load addresses the issue.

Fixes: 8383741ab2e7 ("KVM: arm64: Get rid of host SVE tracking/saving")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220528113829.1043361-2-maz@kernel.org
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c
index 3d251a4d2cf7..8267ff4642d3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	vcpu->arch.flags &= ~KVM_ARM64_FP_ENABLED;
 	vcpu->arch.flags |= KVM_ARM64_FP_HOST;
 
+	vcpu->arch.flags &= ~KVM_ARM64_HOST_SVE_ENABLED;
 	if (read_sysreg(cpacr_el1) & CPACR_EL1_ZEN_EL0EN)
 		vcpu->arch.flags |= KVM_ARM64_HOST_SVE_ENABLED;
 
-- 
2.34.1




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