[PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: arm64: Fix Trace Buffer trap polarity for protected VMs

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Thu Nov 6 06:44:14 PST 2025


The E2TB bits in MDCR_EL2 control trapping of Trace Buffer system
register accesses. These accesses are trapped to EL2 when the bits are
clear.

The trap initialization logic for protected VMs in pvm_init_traps_mdcr()
had the polarity inverted. When a guest did not support the Trace Buffer
feature, the code was setting E2TB. This incorrectly disabled the trap,
potentially allowing a protected guest to access registers for a feature
it was not given.

Fix this by inverting the operation.

Fixes: f50758260bff ("KVM: arm64: Group setting traps for protected VMs by control register")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 8d06a246dfd1..f6f8996c4f97 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static void pvm_init_traps_mdcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		val |= MDCR_EL2_TTRF;
 
 	if (!kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, TraceBuffer, IMP))
-		val |= MDCR_EL2_E2TB_MASK;
+		val &= ~MDCR_EL2_E2TB_MASK;
 
 	/* Trap Debug Communications Channel registers */
 	if (!kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1, FGT, IMP))
-- 
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog




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