[PATCH v18 13/23] KVM: arm64: Add a helper for VMs running on hyp that don't trust the host

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Tue Sep 15 09:01:31 PDT 2026


PKVM and RMM, both do not trust the host. Add a helper to detect the VMs
that have "distrusting" hyp. Use this for blocking ioremap of vgic-v2 into
stage2.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c              | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 1bb43c57fb0f0..09910b2c61bfb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ enum fgt_group_id {
 enum kvm_arm_vm_flavor {
 	VM_NVHE,
 	VM_VHE,
+	/* VMs running on a hyp that doesn't trust */
+	MARKER(__VM_DISTRUSTING_HYP),
 	VM_PKVM,		/* Normal guests on pKVM */
 	MARKER(__VM_PROTECTED),
 	VM_PROTECTED_PKVM,	/* Protected VM */
@@ -1540,6 +1542,7 @@ struct kvm *kvm_arch_alloc_vm(void);
 #define kvm_vm_is_protected_pkvm(kvm)	((kvm)->arch.vm_flavor == VM_PROTECTED_PKVM)
 #define kvm_vm_is_unprotected_pkvm(kvm)	((kvm)->arch.vm_flavor == VM_PKVM)
 
+#define kvm_vm_hyp_is_distrusting(kvm)	((kvm)->arch.vm_flavor > __VM_DISTRUSTING_HYP)
 #define kvm_vm_hyp_is_pkvm(kvm)		(is_protected_kvm_enabled())
 #define vcpu_is_protected(vcpu)		kvm_vm_is_protected((vcpu)->kvm)
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 38f3bf772278f..559a8286807cd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1251,7 +1251,7 @@ int kvm_phys_addr_ioremap(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t guest_ipa,
 				     KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R |
 				     (writable ? KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W : 0);
 
-	if (is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+	if (kvm_vm_hyp_is_distrusting(kvm))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	size += offset_in_page(guest_ipa);
-- 
2.43.0




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