[PATCH v5 3/8] KVM: arm64: nVHE: Simplify invalid_host_el2_vect

Pierre-Clément Tosi ptosi at google.com
Sun Jun 9 23:32:32 PDT 2024


The invalid_host_el2_vect macro is used by EL2{t,h} handlers in nVHE
*host* context, which should never run with a guest context loaded.
Therefore, remove the superfluous vCPU context check and branch
unconditionally to hyp_panic.

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Clément Tosi <ptosi at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
index 135cfb294ee5..3d610fc51f4d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/host.S
@@ -197,12 +197,6 @@ SYM_FUNC_END(__host_hvc)
 	sub	x0, sp, x0			// x0'' = sp' - x0' = (sp + x0) - sp = x0
 	sub	sp, sp, x0			// sp'' = sp' - x0 = (sp + x0) - x0 = sp
 
-	/* If a guest is loaded, panic out of it. */
-	stp	x0, x1, [sp, #-16]!
-	get_loaded_vcpu x0, x1
-	cbnz	x0, __guest_exit_panic
-	add	sp, sp, #16
-
 	/*
 	 * The panic may not be clean if the exception is taken before the host
 	 * context has been saved by __host_exit or after the hyp context has
-- 
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