[PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm64: Fix missing ESR_ELx.IL in syndrome injection

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Sun Jun 14 09:33:29 PDT 2026


Hi folks,

After sashiko caught the missing IL bug [1], I did an audit of all ESR
syndrome construction sites in KVM/arm64 as Marc suggested. This series
is the result of that audit.

The ARM architecture mandates ESR_ELx.IL=1 for several exception
classes regardless of instruction length: EC=Unknown, Instruction
Aborts, Data Aborts with ISV=0, and SError. For FPAC (EC=0x1C), IL
reflects instruction length, but FPAC can only be generated by A64
instructions, so IL must also be 1.

Patch 1 is the bug sashiko found: inject_undef64() in the pKVM hyp (EL2)
path never set IL.
Patch 2 makes the same fix to inject_undef64() in the normal host path,
where IL was derived from the triggering trap's instruction length. No
instruction that reaches undef injection has a 16-bit encoding, so patch
2 has no functional change today.
Patch 3 makes the matching fix to inject_abt64(). Unlike undef injection,
abort injection is reachable from a 16-bit T32 instruction (a 32-bit EL0
task under an AArch64 EL1 guest), so the old code there injects an abort
with IL=0.
Patch 4 fixes the FPAC syndrome constructed during nested ERET
emulation, which did not set IL.
Patches 5-6 fix SError injection in the emulated and nested paths,
neither of which set IL.
Patch 7 fixes a fake ESR used to exit to the host. The host does not
read IL there, so it is not guest-visible.

Based on Linux 7.1-rc7

Cheers,
/fuad

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/87pl1t8q24.wl-maz@kernel.org/

Fuad Tabba (7):
  KVM: arm64: Set ESR_ELx.IL for injected undefined exceptions at EL2
  KVM: arm64: Unconditionally set IL for injected undefined exceptions
  KVM: arm64: Unconditionally set IL for injected abort exceptions
  KVM: arm64: Set IL for injected FPAC exceptions during ERET emulation
  KVM: arm64: Set IL for emulated SError injection
  KVM: arm64: Set IL for nested SError injection
  KVM: arm64: Set IL in fake ESR for pKVM memory sharing exit

 arch/arm64/kvm/emulate-nested.c    |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c     |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c      | 18 +++++-------------
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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