[PATCH v1] KVM: arm64: Fix bad dereference on MTE-enabled systems.

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Thu Oct 27 07:52:28 PDT 2022


On 27/10/2022 13:09, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> enter_exception64() performs an MTE check, which involves dereferencing
> vcpu->kvm. While vcpu has already been fixed up for hyp va, kvm is still
> a kern va pointer.
> 
> Fix this by first converting kvm to a hyp va pointer. If the system does
> not support MTE, the dereference is avoided in the first place.
> 
> Fixes: ea7fc1bb1cd1 ("KVM: arm64: Introduce MTE VM feature")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>

It's worth pointing out this only affects non-VHE mode, which is unusual
on hardware which supports MTE (and therefore VHE). But, of course,
about to get more usual with pKVM.

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> index b7557b25ed56..791d3de76771 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <hyp/adjust_pc.h>
>  #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
>  #include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
> +#include <asm/kvm_mmu.h>
> 
>  #if !defined (__KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__) && !defined (__KVM_VHE_HYPERVISOR__)
>  #error Hypervisor code only!
> @@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ static void enter_exception64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long target_mode,
>  	new |= (old & PSR_C_BIT);
>  	new |= (old & PSR_V_BIT);
> 
> -	if (kvm_has_mte(vcpu->kvm))
> +	if (kvm_has_mte(kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm)))
>  		new |= PSR_TCO_BIT;
> 
>  	new |= (old & PSR_DIT_BIT);
> --
> 2.17.1
> 




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