From: Jacky Li <jackyli@google.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Zhao Liu" <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,
"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@mailo.com>,
"Peter Xu" <peterx@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "James Houghton" <jthoughton@google.com>,
"Mingwei Zhang" <mizhang@google.com>,
"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Brendan Jackman" <jackmanb@google.com>,
"Reiji Watanabe" <reijiw@google.com>,
"Jacky Li" <jackyli@google.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/6] kvm: Add guest memory Pkey initialization
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:44:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818-feature-pkey-dev-v1-2-8c0ef96a4da9@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260818-feature-pkey-dev-v1-0-8c0ef96a4da9@google.com>
Add initialization logic during early QEMU startup to allocate a
dedicated userspace protection key (Pkey) for protecting guest physical
memory when enabled via QEMU_ENABLE_PKEY_GUEST_MEMORY.
Signed-off-by: Jacky Li <jackyli@google.com>
---
include/exec/cpu-common.h | 1 +
system/vl.c | 1 +
util/meson.build | 2 +-
util/pkey.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/exec/cpu-common.h b/include/exec/cpu-common.h
index 6594f7fa1b..5ede0c65dc 100644
--- a/include/exec/cpu-common.h
+++ b/include/exec/cpu-common.h
@@ -112,4 +112,5 @@ static inline CPUState *env_cpu(CPUArchState *env)
return (CPUState *)env_cpu_const(env);
}
+void qemu_init_guest_memory_pkey(void);
#endif /* CPU_COMMON_H */
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index 061cbdf860..e49c6fed39 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -2907,6 +2907,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
module_allow_arch(target_name());
qemu_init_subsystems();
+ qemu_init_guest_memory_pkey();
/* first pass of option parsing */
optind = 1;
diff --git a/util/meson.build b/util/meson.build
index fa174c07a5..682a078a3d 100644
--- a/util/meson.build
+++ b/util/meson.build
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ if host_os != 'windows'
util_ss.add(files('compatfd.c'))
util_ss.add(files('event_notifier-posix.c'))
if host_os != 'emscripten'
- util_ss.add(files('mmap-alloc.c'))
+ util_ss.add(files('mmap-alloc.c', 'pkey.c'))
endif
freebsd_dep = []
if host_os == 'freebsd'
diff --git a/util/pkey.c b/util/pkey.c
index 4f14a72151..249e36d508 100644
--- a/util/pkey.c
+++ b/util/pkey.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
#define PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS 0x1
#endif
+static int guest_memory_pkey = -1;
+
/* Each protection key occupies exactly 2 bits in the PKRU register. */
#define BITS_PER_KEY 2
/* The mask used to extract/write the 2-bit permission flags. */
@@ -86,6 +88,24 @@ static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) intptr_t local_syscall3(
return ret;
}
+__attribute__((target("pku"))) void qemu_init_guest_memory_pkey(void)
+{
+ if (guest_memory_pkey != -1) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ const char *enable_pkey = getenv("QEMU_ENABLE_PKEY_GUEST_MEMORY");
+ if (enable_pkey && strcmp(enable_pkey, "1") == 0) {
+ int pkey = pkey_alloc(0, 0);
+ if (pkey == -1) {
+ error_report("pkey_alloc failed for guest memory: %s",
+ strerror(errno));
+ } else {
+ guest_memory_pkey = pkey;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
#else
/* Dummy implementations for all other configurations (non-x86_64 Linux, */
/* Windows, macOS, etc.) */
@@ -93,4 +113,7 @@ static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) intptr_t local_syscall3(
#include <linux/kvm.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#endif
+
+void qemu_init_guest_memory_pkey(void)
+{}
#endif
--
2.55.0.737.g08866a6d13-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-18 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-18 20:44 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Protect VMM from speculative attacks using x86 PKRU Jacky Li
2026-08-18 20:44 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] x86: Introduce basic PKRU hardware wrappers Jacky Li
2026-08-18 20:44 ` Jacky Li [this message]
2026-08-18 22:03 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] kvm: Add guest memory Pkey initialization Dave Hansen
2026-08-18 20:44 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] physmem: Tag guest RAMBlocks with Protection Key Jacky Li
2026-08-18 20:44 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] kvm: Lock guest RAMBlocks via PKRU during host userspace execution Jacky Li
2026-08-18 20:44 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86: Add xstate parsing and PKRU offset detection Jacky Li
2026-08-18 20:44 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] kvm: Implement SIGSEGV sentinel for Pkey recovery Jacky Li
2026-08-18 21:55 ` Dave Hansen
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