Hi, This patch series adds pointer authentication support for KVM guest and is based on top of Linux 4.20-rc5 and generic pointer authentication patch series[1]. The first two patch in this series was originally posted by Mark Rutland earlier[2,3] and contains some history of this work. Extension Overview: ============================================= The ARMv8.3 pointer authentication extension adds functionality to detect modification of pointer values, mitigating certain classes of attack such as stack smashing, and making return oriented programming attacks harder. The extension introduces the concept of a pointer authentication code (PAC), which is stored in some upper bits of pointers. Each PAC is derived from the original pointer, another 64-bit value (e.g. the stack pointer), and a secret 128-bit key. New instructions are added which can be used to: * Insert a PAC into a pointer * Strip a PAC from a pointer * Authenticate and strip a PAC from a pointer The detailed description of ARMv8.3 pointer authentication support in userspace/kernel can be found in Kristina's generic pointer authentication patch series[1]. KVM guest work: ============================================== If pointer authentication is enabled for KVM guests then the new PAC intructions will not trap to EL2. If not then they may be ignored if in HINT region or trapped in EL2 as illegal instruction. Since KVM guest vcpu runs as a thread so they have a key initialised which will be used by PAC. When world switch happens between host and guest then this key is exchanged. There were some review comments by Christoffer Dall in the original series[2,3,4] and this patch series tries to implement them. The original series enabled pointer authentication for both userspace and kvm userspace. However it is now bifurcated and this series contains only KVM guest support. Changes since v3 [4]: * Use pointer authentication only when VHE is present as ARM8.3 implies ARM8.1 features to be present. * Added lazy context handling of ptrauth instructions from V2 version again. * Added more details in Documentation. * Rebased to new version of generic ptrauth patches [1]. Changes since v2 [2,3]: * Allow host and guest to have different HCR_EL2 settings and not just constant value HCR_HOST_VHE_FLAGS or HCR_HOST_NVHE_FLAGS. * Optimise the reading of HCR_EL2 in host/guest switch by fetching it once during KVM initialisation state and using it later. * Context switch pointer authentication keys when switching between guest and host. Pointer authentication was enabled in a lazy context earlier[2] and is removed now to make it simple. However it can be revisited later if there is significant performance issue. * Added a userspace option to choose pointer authentication. * Based on the userspace option, ptrauth cpufeature will be visible. * Based on the userspace option, ptrauth key registers will be accessible. * A small document is added on how to enable pointer authentication from userspace KVM API. Looking for feedback and comments. Thanks, Amit [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/7/666 [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171127163806.31435-11-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171127163806.31435-10-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx/ [4]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/17/594 Linux (4.20-rc5 based): Amit Daniel Kachhap (5): arm64/kvm: preserve host HCR_EL2 value arm64/kvm: context-switch ptrauth registers arm64/kvm: add a userspace option to enable pointer authentication arm64/kvm: enable pointer authentication cpufeature conditionally arm64/kvm: control accessibility of ptrauth key registers Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt | 13 ++-- Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 4 ++ arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 6 ++ arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 2 + arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 41 +++++++++++- arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 7 ++ arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 24 ++++--- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/ptrauth-sr.c | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 19 ++++-- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c | 11 ++++ arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/tlb.c | 6 +- arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 3 + arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++------ include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 1 + virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 4 ++ 19 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/ptrauth-sr.c kvmtool: Repo: git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/kvmtool.git Amit Daniel Kachhap (1): arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer authentication arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h | 2 ++ arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h | 3 +++ arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-arch.h | 1 + arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h | 4 +++- arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h | 2 ++ arm/aarch64/kvm-cpu.c | 5 +++++ arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h | 1 + arm/kvm-cpu.c | 7 +++++++ include/linux/kvm.h | 1 + 9 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
