Commit 71a7f8cb authored by James Morse's avatar James Morse Committed by Catalin Marinas

KVM: arm64: Set HCR_EL2.PTW to prevent AT taking synchronous exception

AT instructions do a translation table walk and return the result, or
the fault in PAR_EL1. KVM uses these to find the IPA when the value is
not provided by the CPU in HPFAR_EL1.

If a translation table walk causes an external abort it is taken as an
exception, even if it was due to an AT instruction. (DDI0487F.a's D5.2.11
"Synchronous faults generated by address translation instructions")

While we previously made KVM resilient to exceptions taken due to AT
instructions, the device access causes mismatched attributes, and may
occur speculatively. Prevent this, by forbidding a walk through memory
described as device at stage2. Now such AT instructions will report a
stage2 fault.

Such a fault will cause KVM to restart the guest. If the AT instructions
always walk the page tables, but guest execution uses the translation cached
in the TLB, the guest can't make forward progress until the TLB entry is
evicted. This isn't a problem, as since commit 5dcd0fdb ("KVM: arm64:
Defer guest entry when an asynchronous exception is pending"), KVM will
return to the host to process IRQs allowing the rest of the system to keep
running.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # <v5.3: 5dcd0fdb ("KVM: arm64: Defer guest entry when an asynchronous exception is pending")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 88a84ccc
......@@ -71,11 +71,12 @@
* IMO: Override CPSR.I and enable signaling with VI
* FMO: Override CPSR.F and enable signaling with VF
* SWIO: Turn set/way invalidates into set/way clean+invalidate
* PTW: Take a stage2 fault if a stage1 walk steps in device memory
*/
#define HCR_GUEST_FLAGS (HCR_TSC | HCR_TSW | HCR_TWE | HCR_TWI | HCR_VM | \
HCR_BSU_IS | HCR_FB | HCR_TAC | \
HCR_AMO | HCR_SWIO | HCR_TIDCP | HCR_RW | HCR_TLOR | \
HCR_FMO | HCR_IMO)
HCR_FMO | HCR_IMO | HCR_PTW )
#define HCR_VIRT_EXCP_MASK (HCR_VSE | HCR_VI | HCR_VF)
#define HCR_HOST_NVHE_FLAGS (HCR_RW | HCR_API | HCR_APK)
#define HCR_HOST_VHE_FLAGS (HCR_RW | HCR_TGE | HCR_E2H)
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