This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: arm64: Hide system instruction access to Trace registers to the 4.19-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-hide-system-instruction-access-to-trace-re.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5a9939d11ea44f10073ba8cb8806ee892ad4a50a Author: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 23 12:06:29 2021 +0000 KVM: arm64: Hide system instruction access to Trace registers [ Upstream commit 1d676673d665fd2162e7e466dcfbe5373bfdb73e ] Currently we advertise the ID_AA6DFR0_EL1.TRACEVER for the guest, when the trace register accesses are trapped (CPTR_EL2.TTA == 1). So, the guest will get an undefined instruction, if trusts the ID registers and access one of the trace registers. Lets be nice to the guest and hide the feature to avoid unexpected behavior. Even though this can be done at KVM sysreg emulation layer, we do this by removing the TRACEVER from the sanitised feature register field. This is fine as long as the ETM drivers can handle the individual trace units separately, even when there are differences among the CPUs. Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210323120647.454211-2-suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c index 1719d21a171a..122d5e843ab6 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -258,7 +258,6 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64dfr0[] = { * of support. */ S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_SHIFT, 4, 0), - ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_TRACEVER_SHIFT, 4, 0), ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_DEBUGVER_SHIFT, 4, 0x6), ARM64_FTR_END, };