Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] kvm/arm: Align the VMID allocation with the arm64 ASID one

Marco Elver
2021-07-22T19:34:05Z

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:11AM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote:
> On Thursday 22 Jul 2021 at 06:45:14 (+0000), Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
> > > From: Will Deacon [mailto:will@kernel.org]
> > > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> > > b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> > > > index 4b60c0056c04..a02c4877a055 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
> > > > @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ int kvm_host_prepare_stage2(void *mem_pgt_pool,
> > > void *dev_pgt_pool)
> > > > mmu->pgd_phys = __hyp_pa(host_kvm.pgt.pgd);
> > > > mmu->arch = &host_kvm.arch;
> > > > mmu->pgt = &host_kvm.pgt;
> > > > - mmu->vmid.vmid_gen = 0;
> > > > - mmu->vmid.vmid = 0;
> > > > + atomic64_set(&mmu->vmid.id, 0);
> > >
> > > I think this is the first atomic64 use in the EL2 object, which may pull in
> > > some fatal KCSAN instrumentation. Quentin, have you run into this before?
> > >
> > > Might be simple just to zero-initialise mmu for now, if it isn't already.
> >
> > I will check that.
>
> Yes I think what saves us here is that, AFAICT. arm64 doesn't support
> KCSAN yet. But the day it does, this should fail to link (hopefully)
> because of out-of-line calls into e.g. __kasan_check_write().
>
> So yes, a simple zeroing here is probably preferable.

Note: Do not worry about hypothetically breaking with sanitizers here --
whether it's KASAN or KCSAN, they both instrument atomics. In files that
enable instrumentation but the atomic instrumentation should not be
pulled in, use the arch_ variants, but this doesn't apply here because
instrumentation shouldn't even be on.

The indicator that when KCSAN is supported on arm64, the Makefile here
just needs KCSAN_SANITIZE := n, is that all other instrumentation is
also killed entirely:

$ grep -E "(PROFILE|SANITIZE|INSTRUMENT)" arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile
GCOV_PROFILE := n
KASAN_SANITIZE := n
UBSAN_SANITIZE := n
KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n

KCSAN isn't supported on arm64 yet, and when it does, I believe Mark's
arm64 KCSAN series should take care of things like this.

Thanks,
-- Marco