On Fri, Jul 08 2022, Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch series contains a proposed extension to pKVM that allows MTE > to be exposed to the protected guests. It is based on the base pKVM > series previously sent to the list [1] and later rebased to 5.19-rc3 > and uploaded to [2]. > > This series takes precautions against host compromise of the guests > via direct access to their tag storage, by preventing the host from > accessing the tag storage via stage 2 page tables. The device tree > must describe the physical memory address of the tag storage, if any, > and the memory nodes must declare that the tag storage location is > described. Otherwise, the MTE feature is disabled in protected guests. > > Now that we can easily do so, we also prevent the host from accessing > any unmapped reserved-memory regions without a driver, as the host > has no business accessing that memory. > > A proposed extension to the devicetree specification is available at > [3], a patched version of QEMU that produces the required device tree > nodes is available at [4] and a patched version of the crosvm hypervisor > that enables MTE is available at [5]. I'm unsure how this is supposed to work with QEMU + KVM, as your QEMU patch adds mte-alloc properties to regions that are exposed as a separate address space (which will not work with KVM). Is the magic in that new shared section? > > v2: > - refcount the PTEs owned by NOBODY > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220519134204.5379-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx/ > [2] https://android-kvm.googlesource.com/linux/ for-upstream/pkvm-base-v2 > [3] https://github.com/pcc/devicetree-specification mte-alloc > [4] https://github.com/pcc/qemu mte-shared-alloc > [5] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/+/3719324 > > Peter Collingbourne (3): > KVM: arm64: add a hypercall for disowning pages > KVM: arm64: disown unused reserved-memory regions > KVM: arm64: allow MTE in protected VMs if the tag storage is known > > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 1 + > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 6 ++ > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 4 +- > arch/arm64/kernel/image-vars.h | 3 + > arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++- > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h | 1 + > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 1 + > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 9 ++ > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 11 +++ > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 8 +- > arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 4 +- > 11 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)