Re: [PATCH stable-5.6] KVM: arm64: Save the host's PtrAuth keys in non-preemptible context

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:15:02PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> commit ef3e40a7ea8dbe2abd0a345032cd7d5023b9684f upstream
> 
> When using the PtrAuth feature in a guest, we need to save the host's
> keys before allowing the guest to program them. For that, we dump
> them in a per-CPU data structure (the so called host context).
> 
> But both call sites that do this are in preemptible context,
> which may end up in disaster should the vcpu thread get preempted
> before reentering the guest.
> 
> Instead, save the keys eagerly on each vcpu_load(). This has an
> increased overhead, but is at least safe.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h   |  3 ++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h |  6 ------
>  arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c         | 19 ++-----------------
>  virt/kvm/arm/arm.c                   | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Both now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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