[PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: Inject UNDEF when accessing MTE sysregs with MTE disabled
Fuad Tabba
tabba at google.com
Thu Dec 11 03:38:27 PST 2025
When MTE hardware is present but disabled via software (arm64.nomte or
CONFIG_ARM64_MTE=n), HCR_EL2.ATA is cleared to prevent use of MTE
instructions. However, this alone doesn't fully emulate hardware that
lacks MTE support.
With HCR_EL2.ATA cleared, accesses to certain MTE system registers trap
to EL2 with exception class ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64. To faithfully emulate
hardware without MTE (where such accesses would cause an Undefined
Instruction exception), inject UNDEF into the host.
The ability to disable MTE in the host kernel is used by some systems,
such as Android, so that the physical memory otherwise used as tag
storage can be used for other things (i.e. treated just like the rest of
memory).
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 29430c031095..f542e4c17156 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -686,6 +686,46 @@ static void handle_host_smc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
kvm_skip_host_instr();
}
+static void inject_undef64(void)
+{
+ unsigned long sctlr, vbar, old, new;
+ u64 offset, esr;
+
+ vbar = read_sysreg_el1(SYS_VBAR);
+ sctlr = read_sysreg_el1(SYS_SCTLR);
+ old = read_sysreg_el2(SYS_SPSR);
+ new = get_except64_cpsr(old, system_supports_mte(), sctlr, PSR_MODE_EL1h);
+ offset = get_except64_offset(old, PSR_MODE_EL1h, except_type_sync);
+ esr = (ESR_ELx_EC_UNKNOWN << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT) | ESR_ELx_IL;
+
+ write_sysreg_el1(esr, SYS_ESR);
+ write_sysreg_el1(read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ELR), SYS_ELR);
+ write_sysreg_el1(old, SYS_SPSR);
+ write_sysreg_el2(vbar + offset, SYS_ELR);
+ write_sysreg_el2(new, SYS_SPSR);
+}
+
+static bool handle_host_mte(u64 esr)
+{
+ /* If we're here for any reason other than MTE, then it's a bug. */
+
+ if (read_sysreg(HCR_EL2) & HCR_ATA)
+ return false;
+
+ switch (esr_sys64_to_sysreg(esr)) {
+ case SYS_RGSR_EL1:
+ case SYS_GCR_EL1:
+ case SYS_TFSR_EL1:
+ case SYS_TFSRE0_EL1:
+ break;
+ default:
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ inject_undef64();
+ return true;
+}
+
void handle_trap(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
{
u64 esr = read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ESR);
@@ -701,6 +741,10 @@ void handle_trap(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
case ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW:
handle_host_mem_abort(host_ctxt);
break;
+ case ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64:
+ if (handle_host_mte(esr))
+ break;
+ fallthrough;
default:
BUG();
}
--
2.52.0.223.gf5cc29aaa4-goog
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