[PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Fix AArch32 register narrowing on userspace write
Nina Schoetterl-Glausch
nsg at linux.ibm.com
Fri May 24 10:18:28 PDT 2024
On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 15:19 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> When userspace writes to once of the core registers, we make
> sure to narrow the corresponding GPRs if PSTATE indicates
> an AArch32 context.
>
> The code tries to check whether the context is EL0 or EL1 so
> that it narrows the correct registers. But it does so by checking
> the full PSTATE instead of PSTATE.M.
>
> As a consequence, and if we are restoring an AArch32 EL0 context
> in a 64bit guest, and that PSTATE has *any* bit set outside of
> PSTATE.M, we narrow *all* registers instead of only the first 15,
> destroying the 64bit state.
>
> Obviously, this is not something the guest is likely to enjoy.
>
> Correctly masking PSTATE to only evaluate PSTATE.M fixes it.
>
> Fixes: 90c1f934ed71 ("KVM: arm64: Get rid of the AArch32 register mapping code")
> Reported-by: Nina Schoetterl-Glausch <nsg at linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> index e2f762d959bb..d9617b11f7a8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static int set_core_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
> if (*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) & PSR_MODE32_BIT) {
> int i, nr_reg;
>
> - switch (*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu)) {
> + switch (*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) & PSR_AA32_MODE_MASK) {
> /*
> * Either we are dealing with user mode, and only the
> * first 15 registers (+ PC) must be narrowed to 32bit.
Reviewed-by: Nina Schoetterl-Glausch <nsg at linux.ibm.com>
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