4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> commit 21cbe3cc8a48ff17059912e019fbde28ed54745a upstream. The ARMv8 architecture allows the cycle counter to be configured by setting PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f and then accessing PMXEVTYPER_EL0, hence accessing PMCCFILTR_EL0. But it disallows the use of PMSELR_EL0.SEL==0x1f to access the cycle counter itself through PMXEVCNTR_EL0. Linux itself doesn't violate this rule, but we may end up with PMSELR_EL0.SEL being set to 0x1f when we enter a guest. If that guest accesses PMXEVCNTR_EL0, the access may UNDEF at EL1, despite the guest not having done anything wrong. In order to avoid this unfortunate course of events (haha!), let's sanitize PMSELR_EL0 on guest entry. This ensures that the guest won't explode unexpectedly. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c @@ -85,7 +85,13 @@ static void __hyp_text __activate_traps( write_sysreg(val, hcr_el2); /* Trap on AArch32 cp15 c15 accesses (EL1 or EL0) */ write_sysreg(1 << 15, hstr_el2); - /* Make sure we trap PMU access from EL0 to EL2 */ + /* + * Make sure we trap PMU access from EL0 to EL2. Also sanitize + * PMSELR_EL0 to make sure it never contains the cycle + * counter, which could make a PMXEVCNTR_EL0 access UNDEF at + * EL1 instead of being trapped to EL2. + */ + write_sysreg(0, pmselr_el0); write_sysreg(ARMV8_PMU_USERENR_MASK, pmuserenr_el0); write_sysreg(vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2, mdcr_el2); __activate_traps_arch()(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html