[PATCH v3 12/18] KVM: arm64: Prevent host PC adjustments for protected vCPUs

Fuad Tabba fuad.tabba at linux.dev
Mon Sep 14 04:33:32 PDT 2026


__kvm_adjust_pc() lets the host advance a vCPU's PC or inject an
exception, which for a protected vCPU would let the host redirect
guest execution. Drop the request there: the entry handlers apply the
host's PC_UPDATE_REQ on re-entry, where EL2 allows it.

__kvm_adjust_pc() adjusts the vCPU a get/put pair returns, the one it
was given outside pKVM. Both host callers hold the vCPU mutex, so a
hyp vCPU loaded for the vCPU is loaded on the calling CPU. The request
for a loaded protected vCPU is dropped. For a loaded non-protected
vCPU, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY selects the copy, since adjusting the hyp
vCPU while the host copy is authoritative loses the update at the next
flush. Adjusting the hyp vCPU copies PC_UPDATE_REQ in and back out
again: without the copy back, INCREMENT_PC outlives the adjustment and
the next KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS trips WARN_ON(INCREMENT_PC) in
kvm_pend_exception(). With no hyp vCPU loaded, as under
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS, the host copy is adjusted as before.

Until the marshalling patch clears PC_UPDATE_REQ on the host copy at
exit, a KVM_RUN that returns to userspace with INCREMENT_PC set leaves
it on the host copy of a loaded protected vCPU, and a
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS before the next run then trips that WARN_ON.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c             | 21 +++++++++-----
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h | 19 +++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
index 6e60d890afa4a..7ea62e5304ae9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
@@ -353,12 +353,19 @@ static void kvm_inject_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
  */
 void __kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-	if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
-		kvm_inject_exception(vcpu);
-		vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION);
-		vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, EXCEPT_MASK);
-	} else if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC)) {
-		kvm_skip_instr(vcpu);
-		vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC);
+	struct kvm_vcpu *target = pkvm_adjust_pc_get(vcpu);
+
+	if (!target)
+		return;
+
+	if (vcpu_get_flag(target, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
+		kvm_inject_exception(target);
+		vcpu_clear_flag(target, PENDING_EXCEPTION);
+		vcpu_clear_flag(target, EXCEPT_MASK);
+	} else if (vcpu_get_flag(target, INCREMENT_PC)) {
+		kvm_skip_instr(target);
+		vcpu_clear_flag(target, INCREMENT_PC);
 	}
+
+	pkvm_adjust_pc_put(vcpu, target);
 }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
index a4fb04faa7d09..94ba768996032 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
@@ -68,4 +68,23 @@ static inline void kvm_skip_host_instr(void)
 	write_sysreg_el2(read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ELR) + 4, SYS_ELR);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Under pKVM, the vCPU __kvm_adjust_pc() adjusts for @vcpu (NULL drops the
+ * request), and the copy of the consumed PC_UPDATE_REQ back to @vcpu.
+ */
+#ifdef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
+struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_vcpu *target);
+#else
+static inline struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	return vcpu;
+}
+
+static inline void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+				      struct kvm_vcpu *target)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index da8ab636063cf..1dcc75261dc08 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -642,6 +642,38 @@ static void handle___pkvm_host_mkyoung_guest(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 	cpu_reg(host_ctxt, 1) =  ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY names the authoritative copy, the host's when set.
+ * A loaded protected vCPU takes the request at its next entry instead.
+ */
+struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+	struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
+
+	if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+		return vcpu;
+
+	hyp_vcpu = pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu();
+	if (!hyp_vcpu || hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu)
+		return vcpu;
+
+	if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY))
+		return vcpu;
+
+	vcpu_copy_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+	return &hyp_vcpu->vcpu;
+}
+
+/* Reflect the consumed request back, otherwise it stays pending. */
+void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_vcpu *target)
+{
+	if (target != vcpu)
+		vcpu_copy_flag(vcpu, target, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+}
+
 static void handle___kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
 {
 	DECLARE_REG(struct kvm_vcpu *, vcpu, host_ctxt, 1);
-- 
2.39.5




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