[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Prevent the host from using an smc with imm16 != 0

Sebastian Ene sebastianene at google.com
Wed Mar 25 04:31:38 PDT 2026


The ARM Service Calling Convention (SMCCC) specifies that the function
identifier and parameters should be passed in registers, leaving the
16-bit immediate field of the SMC instruction un-handled.
Currently, our pKVM handler ignores the immediate value, which could lead
to non-compliant software relying on implementation-defined behavior.
Enforce the host kernel running under pKVM to use an immediate value
of 0 by decoding the ISS from the ESR_EL2 and return a not supported
error code back to the caller.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene at google.com>
---
v1 -> v2:

 - Dropped injecting an UNDEF and return an error instead
   (SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED)
 - Used the mask ESR_ELx_xVC_IMM_MASK instead of masking with U16_MAX
 - Updated the title of the commit message from:
   "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Inject UNDEF when host is executing an
    smc with imm16 != 0"
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index e7790097db93..4ffe30fd8707 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -762,6 +762,12 @@ void handle_trap(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 		handle_host_hcall(host_ctxt);
 		break;
 	case ESR_ELx_EC_SMC64:
+		if (ESR_ELx_xVC_IMM_MASK & esr) {
+			cpu_reg(host_ctxt, 0) = SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED;
+			kvm_skip_host_instr();
+			break;
+		}
+
 		handle_host_smc(host_ctxt);
 		break;
 	case ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_LOW:
-- 
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog




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