Re: [kvmtool PATCH v6 6/6] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer authentication

[Dave Martin]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 02:54:31PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> This is a runtime capabality for KVM tool to enable Armv8.3 Pointer
> Authentication in guest kernel. A command line option --ptrauth is
> required for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h    | 1 +
>  arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h             | 1 +
>  arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h | 4 +++-
>  arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h    | 1 +
>  arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h  | 1 +
>  arm/kvm-cpu.c                             | 6 ++++++
>  include/linux/kvm.h                       | 1 +
>  7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h b/arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> index d28ea67..520ea76 100644
> --- a/arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> +++ b/arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> @@ -13,4 +13,5 @@
>  #define ARM_CPU_ID		0, 0, 0
>  #define ARM_CPU_ID_MPIDR	5
>  
> +#define ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_FEATURE	0
>  #endif /* KVM__KVM_CPU_ARCH_H */
> diff --git a/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h b/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h
> index 97c3478..1068fd1 100644
> --- a/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct kvm_regs {
>  #define KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT		1 /* CPU running a 32bit VM */
>  #define KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2		2 /* CPU uses PSCI v0.2 */
>  #define KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3		3 /* Support guest PMUv3 */
> +#define KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH		4 /* CPU uses pointer authentication */
>  
>  struct kvm_vcpu_init {
>  	__u32 target;
> diff --git a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h
> index 04be43d..2074684 100644
> --- a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h
> +++ b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h
> @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
>  			"Create PMUv3 device"),				\
>  	OPT_U64('\0', "kaslr-seed", &(cfg)->kaslr_seed,			\
>  			"Specify random seed for Kernel Address Space "	\
> -			"Layout Randomization (KASLR)"),
> +			"Layout Randomization (KASLR)"),		\
> +	OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "ptrauth", &(cfg)->has_ptrauth,		\
> +			"Enable address authentication"),

Nit: doesn't this enable address *and* generic authentication?  The
discussion on what capababilities and enables the ABI exposes probably
needs to conclude before we can finalise this here.

However, I would recommend that we provide a single option here that
turns both address authentication and generic authentication on, even
if the ABI treats them independently.  This is expected to be the common
case by far.

We can always add more fine-grained options later if it turns out to be
necessary.

>  #include "arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h"
>  
> diff --git a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> index a9d8563..496ece8 100644
> --- a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> +++ b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> @@ -17,4 +17,5 @@
>  #define ARM_CPU_CTRL		3, 0, 1, 0
>  #define ARM_CPU_CTRL_SCTLR_EL1	0
>  
> +#define ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_FEATURE	(1UL << KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH)
>  #endif /* KVM__KVM_CPU_ARCH_H */
> diff --git a/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h b/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> index 5734c46..5badcbd 100644
> --- a/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> +++ b/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ struct kvm_config_arch {
>  	bool		aarch32_guest;
>  	bool		has_pmuv3;
>  	u64		kaslr_seed;
> +	bool		has_ptrauth;
>  	enum irqchip_type irqchip;
>  	u64		fw_addr;
>  };
> diff --git a/arm/kvm-cpu.c b/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> index 7780251..4ac80f8 100644
> --- a/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> +++ b/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ struct kvm_cpu *kvm_cpu__arch_init(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long cpu_id)
>  		vcpu_init.features[0] |= (1UL << KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2);
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Set KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH if available */
> +	if (kvm__supports_extension(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH)) {
> +		if (kvm->cfg.arch.has_ptrauth)
> +			vcpu_init.features[0] |= ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_FEATURE;
> +	}
> +

I'm not too keen on requiring a dummy #define for AArch32 here.  How do
we handle other subarch-specific feature flags?  Is there something we
can reuse?

(For SVE I didn''t have a proper solution for this yet: my kvmtool
patches are still a dirty hack...)

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Cheers
---Dave