[PATCH 6.18 006/314] KVM: arm64: Hide S1POE from guests when not supported by the host

Sasha Levin
2026-03-10T11:20:41Z

From: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>

[ Upstream commit f66857bafd4f151c5cc6856e47be2e12c1721e43 ]

When CONFIG_ARM64_POE is disabled, KVM does not save/restore POR_EL1.
However, ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1 sanitisation currently exposes the feature to
guests whenever the hardware supports it, ignoring the host kernel
configuration.

If a guest detects this feature and attempts to use it, the host will
fail to context-switch POR_EL1, potentially leading to state corruption.

Fix this by masking ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1.S1POE in the sanitised system
registers, preventing KVM from advertising the feature when the host
does not support it (i.e. system_supports_poe() is false).

Fixes: 70ed7238297f ("KVM: arm64: Sanitise ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213143815.1732675-2-tabba@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
index ec3fbe0b8d525..7b7f3c932dcd5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
@@ -1801,6 +1801,9 @@ static u64 __kvm_read_sanitised_id_reg(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1_SCTLRX |
ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1_S1POE |
ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1_S1PIE;
+
+ if (!system_supports_poe())
+ val &= ~ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1_S1POE;
break;
case SYS_ID_MMFR4_EL1:
val &= ~ID_MMFR4_EL1_CCIDX;
--
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