[PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: fix config.hcr used uninitialized in __kvm_at_s1e01_fast

D Scott Phillips scott at os.amperecomputing.com
Tue Apr 15 08:46:55 PDT 2025


In the skip_mmu_switch case, config.hcr was used uninitialized. On my
machine that caused garbage to be written to HCR_EL2 and then the CPU
got stuck at the synchronous exception handler. Also, the restore of
HCR_EL2 was missing at the end of the function in the same case.

In skip_mmu_switch case, initialize config.hcr with HCR_HOST_VHE_FLAGS.

Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips <scott at os.amperecomputing.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/at.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
index f74a66ce3064b..ff4b06ce661af 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
@@ -1233,8 +1233,10 @@ static u64 __kvm_at_s1e01_fast(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 op, u64 vaddr)
 	 * the right one (as we trapped from vEL2). If not, save the
 	 * full MMU context.
 	 */
-	if (vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu))
+	if (vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu)) {
+		config.hcr = read_sysreg(hcr_el2);
 		goto skip_mmu_switch;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Obtaining the S2 MMU for a L2 is horribly racy, and we may not
@@ -1299,7 +1301,9 @@ static u64 __kvm_at_s1e01_fast(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 op, u64 vaddr)
 	if (!fail)
 		par = read_sysreg_par();
 
-	if (!(vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu)))
+	if (vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu) && vcpu_el2_tge_is_set(vcpu))
+		write_sysreg(config.hcr, hcr_el2);
+	else
 		__mmu_config_restore(&config);
 
 	return par;
-- 
2.48.1




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