Catalin reports that a hypervisor lying to a guest about the size of the ASID field may result in unexpected issues: - if the underlying HW does only supports 8 bit ASIDs, the ASID field in a TLBI VAE1* operation is only 8 bits, and the HW will ignore the other 8 bits - if on the contrary the HW is 16 bit capable, the ASID field in the same TLBI operation is always 16 bits, irrespective of the value of TCR_ELx.AS. This could lead to missed invalidations if the guest was lead to assume that the HW had 8 bit ASIDs while they really are 16 bit wide. In order to avoid any potential disaster that would be hard to debug, prenent the migration between a host with 8 bit ASIDs to one with wider ASIDs (the converse was obviously always forbidden). This is also consistent with what we already do for VMIDs. If it becomes absolutely mandatory to support such a migration path in the future, we will have to trap and emulate all TLBIs, something that nobody should look forward to. Fixes: d5a32b60dc18 ("KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to change ID_AA64MMFR{0-2}_EL1") Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c index a26f02ec8748..b1918adbd0aa 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c @@ -2674,7 +2674,8 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc sys_reg_descs[] = { ID_WRITABLE(ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1, ~(ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_RES0 | ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_TGRAN4_2 | ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_TGRAN64_2 | - ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_TGRAN16_2)), + ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_TGRAN16_2 | + ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1_ASIDBITS)), ID_WRITABLE(ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1, ~(ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_RES0 | ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_HCX | ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1_TWED | -- 2.43.0