[PATCH v3 3/6] KVM: arm64: Ignore HCR_EL2.FIEN set by L1 guest's EL2
Joey Gouly
joey.gouly at arm.com
Tue Aug 19 03:24:34 PDT 2025
On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 09:21:55PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> An EL2 guest can set HCR_EL2.FIEN, which gives access to the RASv1p1
> fault injection mechanism. This would allow an EL1 guest to inject
> error records into the system, which does sound like a terrible idea.
>
> Prevent this situation by added FIEN to the list of bits we silently
> exclude from being inserted into the host configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
> index e482181c66322..0998ad4a25524 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
> @@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, kvm_hyp_vector);
> *
> * - API/APK: they are already accounted for by vcpu_load(), and can
> * only take effect across a load/put cycle (such as ERET)
> + *
> + * - FIEN: no way we let a guest have access to the RAS "Common Fault
> + * Injection" thing, whatever that does
> */
> -#define NV_HCR_GUEST_EXCLUDE (HCR_TGE | HCR_API | HCR_APK)
> +#define NV_HCR_GUEST_EXCLUDE (HCR_TGE | HCR_API | HCR_APK | HCR_FIEN)
>
> static u64 __compute_hcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> --
> 2.39.2
>
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