[PATCH v5 23/26] KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent a VM using GICv4 from being saved

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Oct 27 07:28:52 PDT 2017


The GICv4 architecture doesn't make it easy for save/restore to
work, as it doesn't give any guarantee that the pending state
is written into the pending table.

So let's not take any chance, and let's return an error if
we encounter any LPI that has the HW bit set. In order for
userspace to distinguish this error from other failure modes,
use -EACCES as an error code.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt | 2 ++
 virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c                       | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
index eb06beb75960..1eec7bcb2d52 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/arm-vgic-its.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ Groups:
     -EINVAL: Inconsistent restored data
     -EFAULT: Invalid guest ram access
     -EBUSY:  One or more VCPUS are running
+    -EACCES: The virtual ITS is backed by a physical GICv4 ITS, and the
+    	     state is not available
 
   KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ITS_REGS
   Attributes:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
index eb72eb027060..2710834d0920 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
@@ -1989,6 +1989,15 @@ static int vgic_its_save_itt(struct vgic_its *its, struct its_device *device)
 	list_for_each_entry(ite, &device->itt_head, ite_list) {
 		gpa_t gpa = base + ite->event_id * ite_esz;
 
+		/*
+		 * If an LPI carries the HW bit, this means that this
+		 * interrupt is controlled by GICv4, and we do not
+		 * have direct access to that state. Let's simply fail
+		 * the save operation...
+		 */
+		if (ite->irq->hw)
+			return -EACCES;
+
 		ret = vgic_its_save_ite(its, device, ite, gpa, ite_esz);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
-- 
2.11.0




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