This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kvm-arm64-reject-vm-creation-when-the-default-ipa-size-is-unsupported.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Mar 15 12:27:54 PM CET 2021
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:09:52 +0000
Subject: KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported
To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20210315110952.4136142-1-maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Commit 7d717558dd5ef10d28866750d5c24ff892ea3778 upstream.
KVM/arm64 has forever used a 40bit default IPA space, partially
due to its 32bit heritage (where the only choice is 40bit).
However, there are implementations in the wild that have a *cough*
much smaller *cough* IPA space, which leads to a misprogramming of
VTCR_EL2, and a guest that is stuck on its first memory access
if userspace dares to ask for the default IPA setting (which most
VMMs do).
Instead, blundly reject the creation of such VM, as we can't
satisfy the requirements from userspace (with a one-off warning).
Also clarify the boot warning, and document that the VM creation
will fail when an unsupported IPA size is provided.
Although this is an ABI change, it doesn't really change much
for userspace:
- the guest couldn't run before this change, but no error was
returned. At least userspace knows what is happening.
- a memory slot that was accepted because it did fit the default
IPA space now doesn't even get a chance to be registered.
The other thing that is left doing is to convince userspace to
actually use the IPA space setting instead of relying on the
antiquated default.
Fixes: 233a7cb23531 ("kvm: arm64: Allow tuning the physical address size for VM")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210311100016.3830038-2-maz@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt | 3 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c | 11 ++++++++---
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ is dependent on the CPU capability and t
be retrieved using KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE of the KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
ioctl() at run-time.
+Creation of the VM will fail if the requested IPA size (whether it is
+implicit or explicit) is unsupported on the host.
+
Please note that configuring the IPA size does not affect the capability
exposed by the guest CPUs in ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1[PARange]. It only affects
size of the address translated by the stage2 level (guest physical to
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
@@ -378,10 +378,10 @@ void kvm_set_ipa_limit(void)
pr_info("kvm: Limiting the IPA size due to kernel %s Address limit\n",
(va_max < pa_max) ? "Virtual" : "Physical");
- WARN(ipa_max < KVM_PHYS_SHIFT,
- "KVM IPA limit (%d bit) is smaller than default size\n", ipa_max);
kvm_ipa_limit = ipa_max;
- kvm_info("IPA Size Limit: %dbits\n", kvm_ipa_limit);
+ kvm_info("IPA Size Limit: %d bits%s\n", kvm_ipa_limit,
+ ((kvm_ipa_limit < KVM_PHYS_SHIFT) ?
+ " (Reduced IPA size, limited VM/VMM compatibility)" : ""));
}
/*
@@ -408,6 +408,11 @@ int kvm_arm_setup_stage2(struct kvm *kvm
return -EINVAL;
} else {
phys_shift = KVM_PHYS_SHIFT;
+ if (phys_shift > kvm_ipa_limit) {
+ pr_warn_once("%s using unsupported default IPA limit, upgrade your VMM\n",
+ current->comm);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
}
parange = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1) & 7;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maz@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/kvm-arm64-reject-vm-creation-when-the-default-ipa-size-is-unsupported.patch
queue-5.4/kvm-arm64-ensure-i-cache-isolation-between-vcpus-of-a-same-vm.patch
queue-5.4/kvm-arm64-fix-exclusive-limit-for-ipa-size.patch
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