[PATCH v9 05/11] KVM: arm64: Enable writable for ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 and ID_DFR0_EL1

[Marc Zyngier]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:35:12 +0100,
Jing Zhang <jingzhangos at google.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:06 AM Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:22:37 +0100,
> > Jing Zhang <jingzhangos at google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > All valid fields in ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 and ID_DFR0_EL1 are writable
> > > from userspace with this change.
> > > RES0 fields and those fields hidden by KVM are not writable.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <jingzhangos at google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 6 ++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> > > index afade7186675..20fc38bad4e8 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> > > @@ -1931,6 +1931,8 @@ static bool access_spsr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> > >       return true;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +#define ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_RES0_MASK (GENMASK(59, 56) | GENMASK(27, 24) | GENMASK(19, 16))
> > > +
> > >  /*
> > >   * Architected system registers.
> > >   * Important: Must be sorted ascending by Op0, Op1, CRn, CRm, Op2
> > > @@ -2006,7 +2008,7 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc sys_reg_descs[] = {
> > >         .set_user = set_id_dfr0_el1,
> > >         .visibility = aa32_id_visibility,
> > >         .reset = read_sanitised_id_dfr0_el1,
> > > -       .val = ID_DFR0_EL1_PerfMon_MASK, },
> > > +       .val = GENMASK(31, 0), },
> >
> > Can you *please* look at the register and realise that we *don't*
> > support writing to the whole of the low 32 bits? What does it mean to
> > allow selecting the M-profile debug? Or the memory-mapped trace?
> >
> > You are advertising a lot of crap to userspace, and that's definitely
> > not on.
> >
> > >       ID_HIDDEN(ID_AFR0_EL1),
> > >       AA32_ID_SANITISED(ID_MMFR0_EL1),
> > >       AA32_ID_SANITISED(ID_MMFR1_EL1),
> > > @@ -2055,7 +2057,7 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc sys_reg_descs[] = {
> > >         .get_user = get_id_reg,
> > >         .set_user = set_id_aa64dfr0_el1,
> > >         .reset = read_sanitised_id_aa64dfr0_el1,
> > > -       .val = ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_MASK, },
> > > +       .val = ~(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMSVer_MASK | ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_RES0_MASK), },
> >
> > And it is the same thing here. Where is the handling code to deal with
> > variable breakpoint numbers? Oh wait, there is none. Really, the only
> > thing we support writing to are the PMU and Debug versions. And
> > nothing else.
> >
> > What does it mean for userspace? Either the write will be denied
> > despite being advertised a writable field (remember the first patch of
> > the series???), or we'll blindly accept the write and further ignore
> > the requested values. Do you really think any of this is acceptable?
> >
> > This is the *9th* version of this series, and we're still battling
> > over some extremely basic userspace issues... I don't think we can
> > merge this series as is stands.
> 
> I removed sanity checks across multiple fields after the discussion
> here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZKRC80hb4hXwW8WK@thinky-boi/
> I might have misunderstood the discussion. I thought we'd let VMM do
> more complete sanity checks.

The problem is that you don't even have a statement about how this is
supposed to be handled. What are the rules? How can the VMM author
*know*?

That's my real issue with this series: at no point do we state when an
ID register can be written, what are the rules that must be followed,
where is the split in responsibility between KVM and the VMM, and what
is the expected behaviour when the VMM exposes something that is
completely outlandish to the guest (such as the M-profile debug).

Do you see the issue? We can always fix the code. But once we've
exposed that to userspace, there is no going back. And I really want
everybody's buy-in on that front, including the VMM people.

Thanks,

	M.

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