Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM

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On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:45:05PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> It recently became apparent that the ARMv8 architecture has interesting
> rules regarding attributes being used when fetching instructions
> if the MMU is off at Stage-1.
> 
> In this situation, the CPU is allowed to fetch from the PoC and
> allocate into the I-cache (unless the memory is mapped with
> the XN attribute at Stage-2).
> 
> If we transpose this to vcpus sharing a single physical CPU,
> it is possible for a vcpu running with its MMU off to influence
> another vcpu running with its MMU on, as the latter is expected to
> fetch from the PoU (and self-patching code doesn't flush below that
> level).
> 
> In order to solve this, reuse the vcpu-private TLB invalidation
> code to apply the same policy to the I-cache, nuking it every time
> the vcpu runs on a physical CPU that ran another vcpu of the same
> VM in the past.
> 
> This involve renaming __kvm_tlb_flush_local_vmid() to
> __kvm_flush_cpu_context(), and inserting a local i-cache invalidation
> there.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h   | 4 ++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c               | 7 ++++++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 6 +++---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c      | 3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/tlb.c       | 3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Since the FWB discussion doesn't affect the correctness of this patch:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will
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