[PATCH 0/3] KVM/arm64 fixes for AArch32 handling

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Fri May 24 12:13:34 PDT 2024


On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 03:19:53PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> The (very much unloved) AArch32 handling has recently been found
> lacking in a number of ways:
> 
> - Nina spotted a brown paper-bag quality bug in the register narrowing
>   code when writing one of the core registers (GPRs, PSTATE) from
>   userspace

Yuck!

> - We never allowed System mode to be restored. Nobody ever complained,
>   but this is wrong nonetheless
> 
> - The handling of traps failing their condition check went from dodgy
>   to outright broken when the handling of ESR_EL2 was upgraded from 32
>   to 64 bit (patch already posted).
> 
> All these are stable material, and I plan to merge them after -rc1
> is released.

Please do!

Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>

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Thanks,
Oliver



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