[PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fixes to handling of restricted registers for protected VMs

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Tue Aug 5 07:39:38 PDT 2025


Hi Fuad,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 02:56:13PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> This patch series is mainly about fixing issues we've encountered in
> pKVM (in downstream Android code), related to the handling of protected
> VM access to restricted registers and injecting undefined exceptions
> into a protected guest.
> 
> The last patch isn't pKVM specific, but a fix to the vgic-v2 code
> encountered while fixing the issues in this series. The issue it fixes
> was indirectly introduced into the code with hVHE.
> 
> Based on Linux 6.16.

Thanks for putting this together so quickly.

I left some small comments on patches 2 and 3 but, for the sake of
transparency (I already mentioned the GIC thing to Marc), please can
you add:

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

on patches 1 and 4?

Cheers,

Will



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