[PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: cpufeature: Make PMUVer and PerfMon unsigned

From: James Clark

Date: Thu Mar 05 2026 - 11:30:42 EST


On the host, this change doesn't make a difference because the fields
are defined as FTR_EXACT. However, KVM allows userspace to set these
fields for a guest and overrides the type to be FTR_LOWER_SAFE. And
while KVM used to do an unsigned comparison to validate that the new
value is lower than what the hardware provides, since the linked commit
it uses the generic sanitization framework which does a signed
comparison.

Fix it by defining these fields as unsigned. In theory, without this
fix, userspace could set a higher PMU version than the hardware supports
by providing any value with the top bit set.

Fixes: c118cead07a7 ("KVM: arm64: Use generic sanitisation for ID_(AA64)DFR0_EL1")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index c31f8e17732a..07abdfd40756 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64dfr0[] = {
* We can instantiate multiple PMU instances with different levels
* of support.
*/
- S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+ ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_SHIFT, 4, 0),
ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_DebugVer_SHIFT, 4, 0x6),
ARM64_FTR_END,
};
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_pfr2[] = {

static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_dfr0[] = {
/* [31:28] TraceFilt */
- S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_DFR0_EL1_PerfMon_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+ ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_EXACT, ID_DFR0_EL1_PerfMon_SHIFT, 4, 0),
ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_DFR0_EL1_MProfDbg_SHIFT, 4, 0),
ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_DFR0_EL1_MMapTrc_SHIFT, 4, 0),
ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_DFR0_EL1_CopTrc_SHIFT, 4, 0),

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2.34.1