From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: Fix sign-extension of MMIO loads
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:48:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625144807.2603272-2-fuad.tabba@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260625144807.2603272-1-fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
A sign-extending load (LDRSB, LDRSH, LDRSW) from MMIO returns a
zero-extended value to the guest. The architecture performs such a load
as a memory read of the access size, then a sign-extension to the
register width. For LDRSH (DDI 0487 M.b C6.2.225, with the Mem accessor
at J1.2.3.111):
data = Mem{16}(address, accdesc);
X{regsize}(t) = SignExtend{regsize}(data);
The byte order is handled inside the Mem accessor, keyed on the access
size; the register width is separate, applied afterwards by SignExtend().
kvm_handle_mmio_return() runs these in the wrong order: it sign-extends
the access-width data, then calls vcpu_data_host_to_guest(), which masks
the value back to the access width (the size-keyed byte-order step). The
mask drops the sign bits that sign-extension produced.
Reorder so vcpu_data_host_to_guest() runs first, with the sign-extension
to register width after it. trace_kvm_mmio() moves with it and now logs
the access-width data before sign-extension.
Fixes: b30070862edbd ("ARM64: KVM: MMIO support BE host running LE code")
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c
index e2285ed8c91de..d1c3a352d5a22 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmio.c
@@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ int kvm_handle_mmio_return(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
len = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_as(vcpu);
data = kvm_mmio_read_buf(run->mmio.data, len);
+ trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_READ, len, run->mmio.phys_addr,
+ &data);
+ data = vcpu_data_host_to_guest(vcpu, data, len);
+
if (kvm_vcpu_dabt_issext(vcpu) &&
len < sizeof(unsigned long)) {
mask = 1U << ((len * 8) - 1);
@@ -135,9 +139,6 @@ int kvm_handle_mmio_return(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!kvm_vcpu_dabt_issf(vcpu))
data = data & 0xffffffff;
- trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_READ, len, run->mmio.phys_addr,
- &data);
- data = vcpu_data_host_to_guest(vcpu, data, len);
vcpu_set_reg(vcpu, kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_rd(vcpu), data);
}
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-25 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-25 14:48 [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Fix and test MMIO sign-extending loads Fuad Tabba
2026-06-25 14:48 ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-06-25 14:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add MMIO sign-extending load test Fuad Tabba
2026-06-25 14:57 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-25 16:14 ` Fuad Tabba
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