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From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: maz@kernel.org, will@kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
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	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v18] arm64: mm: Handle Granule Protection Faults (GPFs)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:04:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260913070459.2547407-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> (raw)

From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>

If the host attempts to access granules that have been delegated for use
in a realm these accesses will be caught and will trigger a Granule
Protection Fault (GPF).

A fault during a page walk signals a bug in the kernel and is handled by
oopsing the kernel. A non-page walk fault could be caused by user space
having access to a page which has been delegated to the kernel and will
trigger a SIGBUS to allow debugging why user space is trying to access a
delegated page.

There is work in progress to unmap the guest_memfd backed private pages from the
linear map. Until we get that support, we could get spurious GPFs from within
the kernel, e.g., load_unaligned_zeropad(). So, try to fix them up for now.

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
---
Changes since v17:
 * Pass untagged address to die_kernel_fault() - Sashiko
 * Explicitly check !user_mode() for fixups - Catalin
 * Switch to BUS_OBJERR for si_code from SI_KERNEL - Catalin
 * Clarify the commit description about the upcoming work on
   unmapping guest_memfd backed pages from linear map
Changes since v16:
 * Update the commit description to indicate why we try to fixup GPFs
Changes since v10:
 * Don't call arm64_notify_die() in do_gpf() but simply return 1.
Changes since v2:
 * Include missing "Granule Protection Fault at level -1"
---
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 75c3e463df2ef..dc3a87902a60c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -914,6 +914,24 @@ static int do_tag_check_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int do_gpf_ptw(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	const struct fault_info *inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
+	unsigned long addr = untagged_addr(far);
+
+	die_kernel_fault(inf->name, addr, esr, regs);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int do_gpf(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	if (!user_mode(regs) && !is_el1_instruction_abort(esr) &&
+	    fixup_exception(regs, esr))
+		return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
 static const struct fault_info fault_info[] = {
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"ttbr address size fault"	},
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level 1 address size fault"	},
@@ -950,12 +968,12 @@ static const struct fault_info fault_info[] = {
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 32"			},
 	{ do_alignment_fault,	SIGBUS,  BUS_ADRALN,	"alignment fault"		},
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 34"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 35"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 36"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 37"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 38"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 39"			},
-	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 40"			},
+	{ do_gpf_ptw,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level -1 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+	{ do_gpf_ptw,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level 0 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+	{ do_gpf_ptw,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level 1 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+	{ do_gpf_ptw,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level 2 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+	{ do_gpf_ptw,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level 3 granule protection fault (translation table walk)" },
+	{ do_gpf,		SIGBUS,  BUS_OBJERR,	"granule protection fault" },
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"level -1 address size fault"	},
 	{ do_bad,		SIGKILL, SI_KERNEL,	"unknown 42"			},
 	{ do_translation_fault,	SIGSEGV, SEGV_MAPERR,	"level -1 translation fault"	},
-- 
2.43.0



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