[PATCH v7 26/45] arm64: Don't expose stolen time for realm guests

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Thu Feb 13 08:14:06 PST 2025


It doesn't make much sense as a realm guest wouldn't want to trust the
host. It will also need some extra work to ensure that KVM will only
attempt to write into a shared memory region. So for now just disable
it.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index a6718dec00c9..79d541c95bfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 		r = system_supports_mte();
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME:
-		r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported();
+		if (kvm_is_realm(kvm))
+			r = 0;
+		else
+			r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported();
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT:
 		r = cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL1);
-- 
2.43.0




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