Re: [kvmtool PATCH v9 5/5] KVM: arm/arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer authentication
From: Dave Martin
Date: Wed Apr 17 2019 - 11:38:10 EST
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 06:06:11PM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/16/19 10:02 PM, Dave Martin wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 08:50:36AM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> >>This patch adds a runtime capabality for KVM tool to enable Arm64 8.3
> >>Pointer Authentication in guest kernel. Two vcpu features
> >>KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_[ADDRESS/GENERIC] are supplied together to enable
> >>Pointer Authentication in KVM guest after checking the capability.
> >>
> >>Command line options --enable-ptrauth and --disable-ptrauth are added
> >>to use this feature. However, if those options are not provided then
> >>also this feature is enabled if host supports this capability.
> >>
> >>The macros defined in the headers are not in sync and should be replaced
> >>from the upstream.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@xxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >>Changes since v8:
> >>* Added option --enable-ptrauth and --disable-ptrauth to use ptrauth. Also
> >> enable ptrauth if no option provided and Host supports ptrauth. [Dave Martin]
> >>* The macro definition are not linear as the kvmtool is not synchronised with the
> >> kernel changes present in kvmarm/next tree.
> >>
> >> arm/aarch32/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h | 1 +
> >> arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h | 2 ++
> >> arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h | 6 +++++-
> >> arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h | 2 ++
> >> arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h | 2 ++
> >> arm/kvm-cpu.c | 11 +++++++++++
> >> include/linux/kvm.h | 2 ++
> >> 7 files changed, 25 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..a2546e6 100644
> >>--- a/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h
> >>+++ b/arm/aarch64/include/asm/kvm.h
> >>@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ 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_ADDRESS 5 /* CPU uses address pointer authentication */
> >>+#define KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC 6 /* CPU uses generic 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..0279b13 100644
> >>--- a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h
> >>+++ b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-config-arch.h
> >>@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
> >> "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', "enable-ptrauth", &(cfg)->enable_ptrauth, \
> >>+ "Enables pointer authentication"), \
> >>+ OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "disable-ptrauth", &(cfg)->disable_ptrauth, \
> >>+ "Disables pointer authentication"),
> >> #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..fcc2107 100644
> >>--- a/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> >>+++ b/arm/aarch64/include/kvm/kvm-cpu-arch.h
> >>@@ -17,4 +17,6 @@
> >> #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_ADDRESS) \
> >>+ | (1UL << KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC))
> >> #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..1b4287d 100644
> >>--- a/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> >>+++ b/arm/include/arm-common/kvm-config-arch.h
> >>@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ struct kvm_config_arch {
> >> bool aarch32_guest;
> >> bool has_pmuv3;
> >> u64 kaslr_seed;
> >>+ bool enable_ptrauth;
> >>+ bool disable_ptrauth;
> >> enum irqchip_type irqchip;
> >> u64 fw_addr;
> >> };
> >>diff --git a/arm/kvm-cpu.c b/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> >>index 7780251..a45a649 100644
> >>--- a/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> >>+++ b/arm/kvm-cpu.c
> >>@@ -69,6 +69,17 @@ struct kvm_cpu *kvm_cpu__arch_init(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long cpu_id)
> >> }
> >> /*
> >>+ * Always enable Pointer Authentication if requested. If system supports
> >>+ * this extension then also enable it by default provided no disable
> >>+ * request present.
> >>+ */
> >>+ if ((kvm->cfg.arch.enable_ptrauth) ||
> >
> >Nit: redundant ()
> ok.
> >
> >>+ (kvm__supports_extension(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS) &&
> >
> >Funny indentation?
> ok will align it.
> >
> >>+ kvm__supports_extension(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC) &&
> >>+ !kvm->cfg.arch.disable_ptrauth))
> >>+ vcpu_init.features[0] |= ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_FEATURE;
> >>+
> >
> >Hmm, we have some weird behaviours here: --enable-ptrauth
> >--disable-ptrauth will result in us trying to enable it, and
> May be 1 more check can be added here like,
>
> if (kvm->cfg.arch.enable_ptrauth && kvm->cfg.arch.disable_ptrauth) {
> print_err("Only 1 option should be supplied\n");
Sure, but we should indicate which actual options conflicted.
> ret -EINVAL;
> }
>
> >--enable-ptrauth without the required caps will result in an unhelpful
> >"Unable to initialise vcpu" error message. I'm not sure this is a
> >whole lot worse than the way other options behave today, though.
>
> Since now ptrauth is enabled by default if system supports it even though it
> is not explicitly requested. so I thought --enable-ptrauth
> option has to now forcefully enable ptrauth and may cause some error message
> in failure.
> Did I interpret something different from your last suggestion[1]?
No, this is what I meant.
> Actually we can skip with --enable-ptrauth and have just 2 option,
> * By default enable ptrauth if system supports it.
> * --disable-ptrauth: useful to migrate non-ptrauth guests on ptrauth hosts
I think --enable-ptrauth is still useful: with --disable-ptrauth,
ptrauth is definitely turned off; with --enable-ptrauth, ptrauth is
definitely turned on (or we refuse to start the guest at all); with
neither, ptrauth is on for the guest if the host supports it.
Cheers
---Dave