[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix AArch32 DBGBXVR<n> handling
Karl Mehltretter
kmehltretter at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 17:56:16 PDT 2026
The consolidation of the breakpoint and watchpoint register accessors
switched DBGBXVR<n> from trap_bvr() to trap_dbg_wb_reg(). The latter
selects backing storage with demux_wb_reg(), which only handles Op2 values
4 through 7. Since DBGBXVR<n> uses Op2 1, an AArch32 guest access hits
KVM_BUG_ON() and marks the VM dead.
DBGBXVR<n> aliases DBGBVR<n>_EL1[63:32], and its AA32(HI) descriptor
already selects the upper half. Map Op2 1 to dbg_bvr[] alongside Op2 4,
restoring the pre-regression behavior.
Fixes: 3ce9f3357e9e ("KVM: arm64: Fold DBGxVR/DBGxCR accessors into common set")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter at gmail.com>
---
Tested on a Raspberry Pi 400 with a minimal AArch32 guest. The unpatched
kernel WARNed in demux_wb_reg() and returned -EIO from KVM_RUN. The
patched kernel completed the access without a warning.
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index 5d5c579d4579..2862df188155 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -889,6 +889,7 @@ static u64 *demux_wb_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *rd)
struct kvm_guest_debug_arch *dbg = &vcpu->arch.vcpu_debug_state;
switch (rd->Op2) {
+ case 0b001:
case 0b100:
return &dbg->dbg_bvr[rd->CRm];
case 0b101:
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
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