[PATCH] KVM: riscv: Fix NACL hfence entry update order

From: Zongmin Zhou

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 03:58:20 EST


From: Zongmin Zhou <zhouzongmin@xxxxxxxxxx>

The SBI v3.0 specification (section 15.1.2) requires a nested HFENCE
entry to be populated as follows:
1) find an unused entry with Config.Pending == 0
2) update the Page_Number and Page_Count words
3) update the Config word with Config.Pending set

__kvm_riscv_nacl_hfence() writes the Config word first, so the SBI
implementation (or NACL hardware) can observe a pending entry with
pnum/pcount values left over from the previous use of that entry,
resulting in incorrect TLB flush ranges.

Write pnum and pcount first and the Config word last. Since the
consumer is an external agent on coherent shared memory, use
WRITE_ONCE() to stop the compiler from reordering the stores and
smp_wmb() to make the parameter words globally visible before the
Pending bit is set.

Fixes: d466c19cead5 ("RISC-V: KVM: Add common nested acceleration support")
Signed-off-by: Zongmin Zhou <zhouzongmin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c
index 9aff03c4f667..a5cda9a65156 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/nacl.c
@@ -42,12 +42,24 @@ void __kvm_riscv_nacl_hfence(void *shmem,
}
}

- entp = shmem + SBI_NACL_SHMEM_HFENCE_ENTRY_CONFIG(i);
- *entp = cpu_to_lelong(control);
+ /*
+ * Per SBI v3.0 section 15.1.2, the Page_Number and Page_Count
+ * words must be updated before the Config word with its Pending
+ * bit set. WRITE_ONCE() stops the compiler from reordering the
+ * stores and smp_wmb() makes the parameter words globally
+ * visible to the SBI implementation (or NACL hardware) before
+ * the Pending bit is set.
+ */
entp = shmem + SBI_NACL_SHMEM_HFENCE_ENTRY_PNUM(i);
- *entp = cpu_to_lelong(page_num);
+ WRITE_ONCE(*entp, cpu_to_lelong(page_num));
entp = shmem + SBI_NACL_SHMEM_HFENCE_ENTRY_PCOUNT(i);
- *entp = cpu_to_lelong(page_count);
+ WRITE_ONCE(*entp, cpu_to_lelong(page_count));
+
+ /* Ensure the parameter words are visible before the Pending bit */
+ smp_wmb();
+
+ entp = shmem + SBI_NACL_SHMEM_HFENCE_ENTRY_CONFIG(i);
+ WRITE_ONCE(*entp, cpu_to_lelong(control));
}

int kvm_riscv_nacl_enable(void)
--
2.34.1


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