[PATCH] arm64: kvm: Fix incorrect VNCR invalidation range calculation

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Thu Sep 4 02:29:09 PDT 2025


On Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:39:49 +0100,
p at sswd.pw wrote:
> 
> From: leedongha <gapdev2004 at gmail.com>
> 
> The code for invalidating VNCR entries in both kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa()
> and invalidate_vncr_va() incorrectly uses a bitwise AND with `(size - 1)`
> instead of `~(size - 1)` to align the start address. This results
> in masking the address bits instead of aligning them down to the start
> of the block.
> 
> This bug may cause stale VNCR TLB entries to remain valid even after a
> TLBI or MMU notifier, leading to incorrect memory translation and
> unexpected guest behavior.
> 
> Credit
> Team 0xB6 in bob14:
> DongHa Lee (@GAP-dev)
> Gyujeong Jin (@G1uN4sh)
> Daehyeon Ko (@4ncienth)
> Geonha Lee (@leegn4a)
> Hyungyu Oh (@DQPC_lover)
> Jaewon Yang (@R4mbb1)
> 
> Signed-off-by: leedongha <gapdev2004 at gmail.com>

The SoB of the person sending the patch is required.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
> index 77db81bae86f..d0ddce877b5d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
> @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ static void kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa(struct kvm *kvm, u64 start, u64 end)
>  
>  		ipa_size = ttl_to_size(pgshift_level_to_ttl(vt->wi.pgshift,
>  							    vt->wr.level));
> -		ipa_start = vt->wr.pa & (ipa_size - 1);
> +		ipa_start = vt->wr.pa & ~(ipa_size - 1);
>  		ipa_end = ipa_start + ipa_size;
>  
>  		if (ipa_end <= start || ipa_start >= end)
> @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ static void invalidate_vncr_va(struct kvm *kvm,
>  
>  		va_size = ttl_to_size(pgshift_level_to_ttl(vt->wi.pgshift,
>  							   vt->wr.level));
> -		va_start = vt->gva & (va_size - 1);
> +		va_start = vt->gva & ~(va_size - 1);
>  		va_end = va_start + va_size;
>  
>  		switch (scope->type) {

Yup, absolutely correct. Thanks a lot for spotting this.
With the above nit addressed:

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

	M.

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