From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use acquire/release to communicate FF-A version negotiation
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:27:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250407152755.1041-1-will@kernel.org> (raw)
The pKVM FF-A proxy rejects FF-A requests other than FFA_VERSION until
version negotiation is complete, which is signalled by setting the
global 'has_version_negotiated' variable.
To avoid excessive locking, this variable is checked directly from
kvm_host_ffa_handler() in response to an FF-A call, but this can race
against another CPU performing the negotiation and potentially lead to
reading a torn value (incredibly unlikely for a 'bool') or problematic
re-ordering of the accesses to 'has_version_negotiated' and
'hyp_ffa_version' whereby a stale version number could be read by
__do_ffa_mem_xfer().
Use acquire/release primitives when writing 'has_version_negotiated'
with the version lock held and when reading without the lock held.
Cc: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@google.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Fixes: c9c012625e12 ("KVM: arm64: Trap FFA_VERSION host call in pKVM")
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
Found by code inspection rather than any real issue in practice.
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
index e433dfab882a..3369dd0c4009 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -730,10 +730,10 @@ static void do_ffa_version(struct arm_smccc_res *res,
hyp_ffa_version = ffa_req_version;
}
- if (hyp_ffa_post_init())
+ if (hyp_ffa_post_init()) {
res->a0 = FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED;
- else {
- has_version_negotiated = true;
+ } else {
+ smp_store_release(&has_version_negotiated, true);
res->a0 = hyp_ffa_version;
}
unlock:
@@ -809,7 +809,8 @@ bool kvm_host_ffa_handler(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt, u32 func_id)
if (!is_ffa_call(func_id))
return false;
- if (!has_version_negotiated && func_id != FFA_VERSION) {
+ if (func_id != FFA_VERSION &&
+ !smp_load_acquire(&has_version_negotiated)) {
ffa_to_smccc_error(&res, FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS);
goto out_handled;
}
--
2.49.0.504.g3bcea36a83-goog
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