[PATCH v17 1/1] arm64: mm: Handle Granule Protection Faults (GPFs)
Suzuki K Poulose
suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Mon Sep 7 09:22:04 PDT 2026
From: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
If the host attempts to access granules that have been delegated for use
in a realm these accesses will be caught and will trigger a Granule
Protection Fault (GPF).
A fault during a page walk signals a bug in the kernel and is handled by
oopsing the kernel. A non-page walk fault could be caused by user space
having access to a page which has been delegated to the kernel and will
trigger a SIGBUS to allow debugging why user space is trying to access a
delegated page.
Also, until we unmap the "private" memory pages from the linear map, we could
get spurious GPFs from within the kernel, e.g., load_unaligned_zeropad(). So,
try to fix them up for now.
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
Changes since v16:
* Update the commit description to indicate why we try to fixup GPFs
Changes since v10:
* Don't call arm64_notify_die() in do_gpf() but simply return 1.
Changes since v2:
* Include missing "Granule Protection Fault at level -1"
---
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 0b52557652be6..ad00997b1a873 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -910,6 +910,22 @@ static int do_tag_check_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr,
return 0;
}
+static int do_gpf_ptw(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ const struct fault_info *inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
+
+ die_kernel_fault(inf->name, far, esr, regs);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int do_gpf(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ if (!is_el1_instruction_abort(esr) && fixup_exception(regs, esr))
+ return 0;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
static const struct fault_info fault_info[] = {
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "ttbr address size fault" },
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level 1 address size fault" },
@@ -946,12 +962,12 @@ static const struct fault_info fault_info[] = {
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 32" },
{ do_alignment_fault, SIGBUS, BUS_ADRALN, "alignment fault" },
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 34" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 35" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 36" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 37" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 38" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 39" },
- { do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 40" },
+ { do_gpf_ptw, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level -1 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+ { do_gpf_ptw, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level 0 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+ { do_gpf_ptw, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level 1 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+ { do_gpf_ptw, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level 2 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+ { do_gpf_ptw, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level 3 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+ { do_gpf, SIGBUS, SI_KERNEL, "granule protection fault" },
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "level -1 address size fault" },
{ do_bad, SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL, "unknown 42" },
{ do_translation_fault, SIGSEGV, SEGV_MAPERR, "level -1 translation fault" },
--
2.43.0
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