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From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keirf@google.com>,
	Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>,
	Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
	Hiroyuki Katsura <hk590@cam.ac.uk>, Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fix host access to the EL2 stacks
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2026 12:07:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908110713.1540304-1-fuad.tabba@linux.dev> (raw)

Hi folks,

The per-CPU EL2 stacks are initialised as host-owned after pKVM init.
fix_host_ownership() walks only the linear-map alias of each memblock
region, and the stacks, mapped in the private VA range for their guard
pages, have none.

Patch 1 is the fix, and it needs none of the other three. Patch 4 adds
the check that would have caught it and would catch similar instances
in the future: once the transfer is done, walk the private VA range and
fail init unless every valid leaf is hyp-owned, or is hyp text mapped
without write access.

Patch 2 is a fix in its own right, but to a different bug.
fix_host_ownership_walker() matches hyp text on its stage-1 permissions,
and that test hasn't matched on a non-hVHE host since 7.0, so hyp text
is donated there rather than left read-only. Nothing crashes, but the
instruction dump on hyp panic reads a page the host can't access, so
the Code: line comes out as question marks. It matches by physical
address instead, which is what patch 4 needs too. Patch 3 splits the
start of the range from the allocation cursor, with no functional
change, so patch 4 knows where the range begins.

Based on Linux 7.3-rc2 (df2908090cda3).

Cheers,
/fuad

Fuad Tabba (4):
  KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2
  KVM: arm64: Match hyp text by physical address in fix_host_ownership()
  KVM: arm64: Move the private VA allocation cursor to __io_map_next
  KVM: arm64: Check every private mapping is hyp-owned at pKVM init

 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h |  2 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h          |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c         | 20 +++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c                  | 79 ++++++++++++++++---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c               | 16 +++-
 5 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)


base-commit: df2908090cda368b01ff43709f51890076c56157
-- 
2.39.5



             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08 11:07 Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-09-08 11:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: arm64: Transfer the hyp stack pages out of the host stage-2 Fuad Tabba
2026-09-08 11:07 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: arm64: Match hyp text by physical address in fix_host_ownership() Fuad Tabba
2026-09-08 11:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: arm64: Move the private VA allocation cursor to __io_map_next Fuad Tabba
2026-09-08 11:07 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: arm64: Check every private mapping is hyp-owned at pKVM init Fuad Tabba
2026-09-08 12:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fix host access to the EL2 stacks Marc Zyngier
2026-09-08 13:04 ` Vincent Donnefort

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