From: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
To: maz@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev
Cc: james.morse@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com,
yuzenghui@huawei.com, qperret@google.com, vdonnefort@google.com,
tabba@google.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] KVM: arm64: Guard against NULL vcpu on VHE hyp panic path
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:30:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428103008.696141-4-tabba@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428103008.696141-1-tabba@google.com>
On VHE, __hyp_call_panic() unconditionally calls __deactivate_traps(vcpu)
on the vcpu pointer read from host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu. That pointer
is cleared after every guest exit (and is never set when no guest is
running), so an unexpected EL2 exception landing in _guest_exit_panic,
e.g. via the el2t*_invalid / el2h_irq_invalid vectors - reaches this
function with vcpu == NULL. __deactivate_traps() then dereferences vcpu
via ___deactivate_traps() -> vserror_state_is_nested() -> vcpu_has_nv()
-> vcpu->arch.features, faulting inside the panic handler and obscuring
the original failure.
The nVHE counterpart (hyp_panic() in arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c)
already guards its vcpu-using cleanup with "if (vcpu)"; mirror that
here. sysreg_restore_host_state_vhe() and __hyp_do_panic() do not depend
on vcpu and continue to run unconditionally, preserving panic forensics.
The trailing panic("...VCPU:%p", vcpu) prints "(null)" safely via
printk's %p handling.
Fixes: 6a0259ed29bb ("KVM: arm64: Remove hyp_panic arguments")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
index 140d3bcb5651..8912863cc238 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
@@ -674,7 +674,8 @@ static void __noreturn __hyp_call_panic(u64 spsr, u64 elr, u64 par)
host_ctxt = host_data_ptr(host_ctxt);
vcpu = host_ctxt->__hyp_running_vcpu;
- __deactivate_traps(vcpu);
+ if (vcpu)
+ __deactivate_traps(vcpu);
sysreg_restore_host_state_vhe(host_ctxt);
panic("HYP panic:\nPS:%08llx PC:%016llx ESR:%08llx\nFAR:%016llx HPFAR:%016llx PAR:%016llx\nVCPU:%p\n",
--
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 10:30 [PATCH 0/8] KVM: arm64: EL2 synchronisation and pKVM stage-2 error propagation fixes Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] KVM: arm64: Make EL2 exception entry and exit context-synchronization events Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] KVM: arm64: Synchronise HCR_EL2 writes on the guest exit path Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 13:50 ` Will Deacon
2026-04-28 14:21 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] KVM: arm64: Fix __deactivate_fgt macro parameter typo Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate stage-2 map failure on host->guest share Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate stage-2 map failure on host->guest donation Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 13:45 ` Will Deacon
2026-04-28 14:36 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 16:57 ` Will Deacon
2026-04-28 17:03 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate stage-2 map failure on guest->host share Fuad Tabba
2026-04-28 10:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate stage-2 map failure on guest->host unshare Fuad Tabba
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