[PATCH v2 4/8] lib: sbi_hart: reset sstateen and hstateen

Radim Krčmář rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com
Tue Apr 29 07:25:46 PDT 2025


Not resetting sstateen is a potential security hole, because U might be
able to access state that S does not properly context-switch.
Similar for hstateen with VS and HS.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar at ventanamicro.com>
---
v2: Add Reviewed-by [Anup]
---
 lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
index 5ea7328a18c9..bdf66ef767ed 100644
--- a/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
+++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ static void mstatus_init(struct sbi_scratch *scratch)
 			mstateen_val &= ~SMSTATEEN0_CTR;
 
 		csr_write64(CSR_MSTATEEN0, mstateen_val);
+
+		if (misa_extension('S'))
+			csr_write(CSR_SSTATEEN0, 0);
+
+		if (misa_extension('H'))
+			csr_write64(CSR_HSTATEEN0, (uint64_t)0);
 	}
 
 	if (sbi_hart_priv_version(scratch) >= SBI_HART_PRIV_VER_1_12) {
-- 
2.48.1




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