Commit ea78f77f authored by Marc Zyngier's avatar Marc Zyngier Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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KVM: arm64: Do not allow ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1.ASIDbits to be overridden



commit 03c7527e upstream.

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: d5a32b60 ("KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to change ID_AA64MMFR{0-2}_EL1")
Reported-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241203190236.505759-1-maz@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 06e21320
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