Re: [PATCH v10 2/5] KVM: arm/arm64: context-switch ptrauth registers

[Dave Martin]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:12:35AM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> 
> When pointer authentication is supported, a guest may wish to use it.
> This patch adds the necessary KVM infrastructure for this to work, with
> a semi-lazy context switch of the pointer auth state.
> 
> Pointer authentication feature is only enabled when VHE is built
> in the kernel and present in the CPU implementation so only VHE code
> paths are modified.
> 
> When we schedule a vcpu, we disable guest usage of pointer
> authentication instructions and accesses to the keys. While these are
> disabled, we avoid context-switching the keys. When we trap the guest
> trying to use pointer authentication functionality, we change to eagerly
> context-switching the keys, and enable the feature. The next time the
> vcpu is scheduled out/in, we start again. However the host key save is
> optimized and implemented inside ptrauth instruction/register access
> trap.
> 
> Pointer authentication consists of address authentication and generic
> authentication, and CPUs in a system might have varied support for
> either. Where support for either feature is not uniform, it is hidden
> from guests via ID register emulation, as a result of the cpufeature
> framework in the host.
> 
> Unfortunately, address authentication and generic authentication cannot
> be trapped separately, as the architecture provides a single EL2 trap
> covering both. If we wish to expose one without the other, we cannot
> prevent a (badly-written) guest from intermittently using a feature
> which is not uniformly supported (when scheduled on a physical CPU which
> supports the relevant feature). Hence, this patch expects both type of
> authentication to be present in a cpu.
> 
> This switch of key is done from guest enter/exit assembly as preparation
> for the upcoming in-kernel pointer authentication support. Hence, these
> key switching routines are not implemented in C code as they may cause
> pointer authentication key signing error in some situations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> [Only VHE, key switch in full assembly, vcpu_has_ptrauth checks
> , save host key in ptrauth exception trap]
> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Changes since v9:
> 
> * Removed hardcoding of enum values[Mark Zyngier].
> * Changed kvm_ptrauth_asm.h to kvm_ptrauth.h[Mark Zyngier].
> * Removed macro __ptrauth_save_state and applied inline [Marc Zyngier].
> * Moved kvm_arm_vcpu_ptrauth_setup_lazy, kvm_arm_vcpu_ptrauth_enable and
>   kvm_arm_vcpu_ptrauth_disable from *.c to kvm_emulate.h file [Marc Zyngier].
> * Added/Modified comments at few places [Marc Zyngier].

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> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c

[...]

> @@ -1058,9 +1087,11 @@ static u64 read_id_reg(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  					 (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_API_SHIFT) |
>  					 (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPA_SHIFT) |
>  					 (0xfUL << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPI_SHIFT);
> -		if (val & ptrauth_mask)
> -			kvm_debug("ptrauth unsupported for guests, suppressing\n");
> -		val &= ~ptrauth_mask;
> +		if (!vcpu_has_ptrauth(vcpu)) {
> +			if (val & ptrauth_mask)
> +				kvm_debug("ptrauth unsupported for guests, suppressing\n");
> +			val &= ~ptrauth_mask;
> +		}

Hmmm, didn't spot this before, but this error message no longer makes
sense now that KVM _does_ support pointer auth.

Without vcpu_has_ptrauth(vcpu), we should just silently mask out the
relevant ID fields now (same as for SVE).

The patch below should achieve that.

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