Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: arm64: Start trapping ID registers for 32 bit guests

From: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
To: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: arm64: Start trapping ID registers for 32 bit guests
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 05:46:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkqGP/OaKK7LpKF2@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeT=Fz4cB_SoZCMkOp9cEuMbY+M+ieQ6PTBcvCOQRwGkGv9pA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Reiji,

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:45:15PM -0700, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 6:08 PM Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > To date KVM has not trapped ID register accesses from AArch32, meaning
> > that guests get an unconstrained view of what hardware supports. This
> > can be a serious problem because we try to base the guest's feature
> > registers on values that are safe system-wide. Furthermore, KVM does not
> > implement the latest ISA in the PMU and Debug architecture, so we
> > constrain these fields to supported values.
> >
> > Since KVM now correctly handles CP15 and CP10 register traps, we no
> > longer need to clear HCR_EL2.TID3 for 32 bit guests and will instead
> > emulate reads with their safe values.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
> 
> BTW, due to this, on a system that supports PMUv3, ID_DFR0_E1 value will
> become 0 for the aarch32 guest without PMUv3. This is the correct behavior,
> but it affects migration.  I'm not sure how much we should care about
> migration of the aarch32 guest though (and it will be resolved once ID
> registers become configurable anyway).

I believe userspace has been accessing the sanitised values of these
feature registers the entire time, so we should be OK on the UAPI side.

From the guest's perspective, I don't believe there is a meaningful
change. Even if the guest were to believe the value it sees in
ID_DFR0.PerfMon, it'll crash and burn on the first attempt to poke a PMU
register as we synthesize an UNDEF, right? At least now we cover our
tracks and ensure the vCPU correctly identifies itself to the guest.

This is, of course, unless I missed something painfully obvious :)

--
Thanks,
Oliver

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