Re: [PATCH v5 04/30] arm64: KVM: Hide unsupported AArch64 CPU features from guests

Dave Martin
2017-11-02T09:20:36Z

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 09:15:57AM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:26:03AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 05:47:29AM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 03:50:56PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> > > > Currently, a guest kernel sees the true CPU feature registers
> > > > (ID_*_EL1) when it reads them using MRS instructions. This means
> > > > that the guest may observe features that are present in the
> > > > hardware but the host doesn't understand or doesn't provide support
> > > > for. A guest may legimitately try to use such a feature as per the
> > > > architecture, but use of the feature may trap instead of working
> > > > normally, triggering undef injection into the guest.
> > > >
> > > > This is not a problem for the host, but the guest may go wrong when
> > > > running on newer hardware than the host knows about.
> > > >
> > > > This patch hides from guest VMs any AArch64-specific CPU features
> > > > that the host doesn't support, by exposing to the guest the
> > > > sanitised versions of the registers computed by the cpufeatures
> > > > framework, instead of the true hardware registers. To achieve
> > > > this, HCR_EL2.TID3 is now set for AArch64 guests, and emulation
> > > > code is added to KVM to report the sanitised versions of the
> > > > affected registers in response to MRS and register reads from
> > > > userspace.
> > > >
> > > > The affected registers are removed from invariant_sys_regs[] (since
> > > > the invariant_sys_regs handling is no longer quite correct for
> > > > them) and added to sys_reg_desgs[], with appropriate access(),
> > > > get_user() and set_user() methods. No runtime vcpu storage is
> > > > allocated for the registers: instead, they are read on demand from
> > > > the cpufeatures framework. This may need modification in the
> > > > future if there is a need for userspace to customise the features
> > > > visible to the guest.
> > > >
> > > > Attempts by userspace to write the registers are handled similarly
> > > > to the current invariant_sys_regs handling: writes are permitted,
> > > > but only if they don't attempt to change the value. This is
> > > > sufficient to support VM snapshot/restore from userspace.
> > > >
> > > > Because of the additional registers, restoring a VM on an older
> > > > kernel may not work unless userspace knows how to handle the extra
> > > > VM registers exposed to the KVM user ABI by this patch.
> > > >
> > > > Under the principle of least damage, this patch makes no attempt to
> > > > handle any of the other registers currently in
> > > > invariant_sys_regs[], or to emulate registers for AArch32: however,
> > > > these could be handled in a similar way in future, as necessary.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > > > Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 3 +
> > > > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 6 +
> > > > arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 282 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > > > 3 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> > > > index 4dceb12..609d59af 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
> > > > @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@
> > > > #define SYS_ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 5, 0)
> > > > #define SYS_ID_AA64DFR1_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 5, 1)
> > > >
> > > > +#define SYS_ID_AA64AFR0_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 5, 4)
> > > > +#define SYS_ID_AA64AFR1_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 5, 5)
> > > > +
> > > > #define SYS_ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 6, 0)
> > > > #define SYS_ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 sys_reg(3, 0, 0, 6, 1)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > > index 945e79c..35a90b8 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c
> > > > @@ -81,11 +81,17 @@ static void __hyp_text __activate_traps(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > > > * it will cause an exception.
> > > > */
> > > > val = vcpu->arch.hcr_el2;
> > > > +
> > > > if (!(val & HCR_RW) && system_supports_fpsimd()) {
> > > > write_sysreg(1 << 30, fpexc32_el2);
> > > > isb();
> > > > }
> > > > +
> > > > + if (val & HCR_RW) /* for AArch64 only: */
> > > > + val |= HCR_TID3; /* TID3: trap feature register accesses */
> > > > +
> > >
> > > I still think we should set this in vcpu_reset_hcr() and do it once
> > > instead of adding code in every iteration of the critical path.
> >
> > Dang, I somehow missed this in the last round.
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> > index e5df3fc..c87be0d 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> > @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ static inline void vcpu_reset_hcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 |= HCR_E2H;
> > if (test_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT, vcpu->arch.features))
> > vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 &= ~HCR_RW;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * TID3: trap feature register accesses that we virtualise.
> > + * For now this is conditional, since no AArch32 feature regs
> > + * are currently virtualised.
> > + */
> > + if (vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 & HCR_RW)
> > + vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 |= HCR_TID3;
> > }
> >
> > static inline unsigned long vcpu_get_hcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >
> > > Otherwise this patch looks good to me.
> >
> > I'll probably post this as a separate follow-up patch, unless there's
> > some other reason for a full respin.
> >
>
> Fine with me, just remember to remove the part of the world-switch that
> was added in this patch, as that's what we want to savoid.

Agreed. My patch already did that, but I assumed that part of the diff
was uninteresting...

Cheers
---Dave