[PATCH 4/4] KVM: arm64: at: Update AF on software walk only if VM has FEAT_HAFDBS

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Nov 28 02:09:46 PST 2025


A guest can write 1 to TCR_ELx.HA, making the KVM software walker update
the access flag in a table descriptor even if FEAT_HAFDBS is not present.
Avoid this by making wi->ha depend on FEAT_HAFDBS being enabled in the VM,
similar to how the software walker treats FEAT_HPDS.

This is not needed for VTCR_EL2.HA, since a guest will always write to
the in-memory copy of the register, where the HA bit is masked (set to
0) by KVM if the VM doesn't have FEAT_HAFDBS.

Fixes: c59ca4b5b0c3 ("KVM: arm64: Implement HW access flag management in stage-1 SW PTW")
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/at.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
index 6d41a95f6c60..53bf70126f81 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ static int setup_s1_walk(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct s1_walk_info *wi,
 
 	wi->baddr &= GENMASK_ULL(wi->max_oa_bits - 1, x);
 
-	wi->ha = (wi->regime == TR_EL2 ?
+	wi->ha  = kvm_has_feat(vcpu->kvm, ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1, HAFDBS, AF);
+	wi->ha &= (wi->regime == TR_EL2 ?
 		  FIELD_GET(TCR_EL2_HA, tcr) :
 		  FIELD_GET(TCR_HA, tcr));
 
-- 
2.43.0




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