[RFC PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Make MTE_frac masking conditional on MTE capability
Ben Horgan
ben.horgan at arm.com
Mon Apr 14 05:40:58 PDT 2025
If MTE_frac is masked out unconditionally then the guest will always
see ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac as 0. However, a value of 0 when
ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE is 2 indicates that MTE_ASYNC is supported. Hence, for
a host with ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE==2 and ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac==0xf
(MTE_ASYNC unsupported) the guest would see MTE_ASYNC advertised as
supported whilst the host does not support it. Hence, expose the sanitised
value of MTE_frac to the guest and user-space.
As MTE_frac was previously hidden, always 0, and KVM must accept values
from KVM provided by user-space, when ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE is 2 allow
user-space to set ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac to 0. However, ignore it to
avoid incorrectly claiming hardware support for MTE_ASYNC in the guest.
Note that linux does not check the value of ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac and
wrongly assumes that MTE async faults can be generated even on hardware
that does nto support them. This issue is not addressed here.
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index 005ad28f7306..9ae647082684 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -1600,13 +1600,14 @@ static u64 __kvm_read_sanitised_id_reg(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
val = sanitise_id_aa64pfr0_el1(vcpu, val);
break;
case SYS_ID_AA64PFR1_EL1:
- if (!kvm_has_mte(vcpu->kvm))
+ if (!kvm_has_mte(vcpu->kvm)) {
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE);
+ val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac);
+ }
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_SME);
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_RNDR_trap);
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_NMI);
- val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac);
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_GCS);
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_THE);
val &= ~ARM64_FEATURE_MASK(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTEX);
@@ -1953,11 +1954,32 @@ static int set_id_aa64pfr1_el1(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
{
u64 hw_val = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64PFR1_EL1);
u64 mpam_mask = ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MPAM_frac_MASK;
+ u8 mte = SYS_FIELD_GET(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, MTE, hw_val);
+ u8 user_mte_frac = SYS_FIELD_GET(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, MTE_frac, user_val);
/* See set_id_aa64pfr0_el1 for comment about MPAM */
if ((hw_val & mpam_mask) == (user_val & mpam_mask))
user_val &= ~ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MPAM_frac_MASK;
+ /*
+ * Previously MTE_frac was hidden from guest. However, if the
+ * hardware supports MTE2 but not MTE_ASYM_FAULT then a value
+ * of 0 for this field indicates that the hardware supports
+ * MTE_ASYNC. Whereas, 0xf indicates MTE_ASYNC is not supported.
+ *
+ * As KVM must accept values from KVM provided by user-space,
+ * when ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE is 2 allow user-space to set
+ * ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac to 0. However, ignore it to avoid
+ * incorrectly claiming hardware support for MTE_ASYNC in the
+ * guest.
+ */
+
+ if (mte == ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_MTE2 &&
+ user_mte_frac == ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac_ASYNC) {
+ user_val &= ~ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac_MASK;
+ user_val |= hw_val & ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac_MASK;
+ }
+
return set_id_reg(vcpu, rd, user_val);
}
--
2.43.0
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