[PATCH v3 4/9] lib: sbi_hart: lock mwid CSR for RoT immutability

Anup Patel anup at brainfault.org
Wed Oct 28 03:53:30 PDT 2026


On Tue, Oct 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM Yu-Chien Peter Lin <peter.lin at sifive.com> wrote:
>
> Lock the M-mode World ID (mwid) CSR during hart re-initialization
> to enforce immutability of the WID established by the root-of-trust.
>
> OpenSBI does not assign the WID value itself; it only sets MWID_LOCK
> to freeze the value established by prior RoT stage. The MWID_LOCK bit
> at XLEN-1 is sticky and makes the CSR read-only until reset, enforcing
> a temporal security boundary per the RISC-V Worlds specification.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu-Chien Peter Lin <peter.lin at sifive.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pawandeep Oza <pawandeep.oza at oss.qualcomm.com>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>

Regards,
Anup

> ---
> Change v2->v3:
> - No change
> ---
>  lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c b/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
> index 38a761ac..f05d9b5d 100644
> --- a/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
> +++ b/lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c
> @@ -724,6 +724,13 @@ int sbi_hart_reinit(struct sbi_scratch *scratch)
>         if (rc)
>                 return rc;
>
> +       /*
> +        * Assume MWID is restored by root-of-trust M-mode in previous
> +        * stage. Lock mwid so RoT-defined WID remains immutable.
> +        */
> +       if (sbi_hart_has_extension(scratch, SBI_HART_EXT_SMWID))
> +               csr_set(CSR_MWID, MWID_LOCK);
> +
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.43.7
>



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