Re: [PATCH v6 4/6] arm64/kvm: add a userspace option to enable pointer authentication

[Dave P Martin]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 09:41:20AM +0000, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/21/19 9:23 PM, Dave Martin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 02:54:29PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> >> This feature will allow the KVM guest to allow the handling of
> >> pointer authentication instructions or to treat them as undefined
> >> if not set. It uses the existing vcpu API KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT to
> >> supply this parameter instead of creating a new API.
> >>
> >> A new register is not created to pass this parameter via
> >> SET/GET_ONE_REG interface as just a flag (KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH)
> >> supplied is enough to enable this feature.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[...]

> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> >> index 12529df..f7bcc60 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> >> @@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ static bool access_cntp_cval(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>   }
> >>
> >>   /* Read a sanitised cpufeature ID register by sys_reg_desc */
> >> -static u64 read_id_reg(struct sys_reg_desc const *r, bool raz)
> >> +static u64 read_id_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct sys_reg_desc const *r, bool raz)
> >>   {
> >>   u32 id = sys_reg((u32)r->Op0, (u32)r->Op1,
> >>    (u32)r->CRn, (u32)r->CRm, (u32)r->Op2);
> >> @@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ static u64 read_id_reg(struct sys_reg_desc const *r, bool raz)
> >>    (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_API_SHIFT) |
> >>    (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPA_SHIFT) |
> >>    (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPI_SHIFT);
> >> -if (!kvm_supports_ptrauth()) {
> >> +if (!kvm_arm_vcpu_ptrauth_allowed(vcpu)) {
> >>   kvm_debug("ptrauth unsupported for guests, suppressing\n");
> >>   val &= ~ptrauth_mask;
> >>   }
> >> @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ static bool __access_id_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> >>   if (p->is_write)
> >>   return write_to_read_only(vcpu, p, r);
> >>
> >> -p->regval = read_id_reg(r, raz);
> >> +p->regval = read_id_reg(vcpu, r, raz);
> >>   return true;
> >>   }
> >
> > The SVE KVM series makes various overlapping changes to propagate vcpuo
> > into the relevant places, but hopefully the rebase is not too painful.
> > Many of the changes are probably virtually identical between the two
> > series.
> >
> > See for example [1].  Maybe you could cherry-pick and drop the
> > equivalent changes here (though if your series is picked up first, I
> > will live with it ;)
> Yes no issue. I will cherry-pick your specific patch and rebase mine on it.

OK, thanks.

Unfortunately it is likely to churn a bit due to review-- my v6 series
will rename some stuff.  Hopefully it will be stable from then on.

Cheers
---Dave
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