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

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Tue Aug 5 08:20:41 PDT 2025


Hi Will,

On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 at 15:39, Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

Will do.

Cheers,
/fuad

>
> Cheers,
>
> Will



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