Re: [PATCH v6 04/13] arm64/kvm: hide ptrauth from guests

On 12/7/18 12:39 PM, Kristina Martsenko wrote:

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

In subsequent patches we're going to expose ptrauth to the host kernel
and userspace, but things are a bit trickier for guest kernels. For the
time being, let's hide ptrauth from KVM guests.

Regardless of how well-behaved the guest kernel is, guest userspace
could attempt to use ptrauth instructions, triggering a trap to EL2,
resulting in noise from kvm_handle_unknown_ec(). So let's write up a
handler for the PAC trap, which silently injects an UNDEF into the
guest, as if the feature were really missing.

Reviewing the long thread that accompanied v5, I thought we were *not* going to
trap PAuth instructions from the guest.

In particular, the OS distribution may legitimately be built to include
hint-space nops.  This includes XPACLRI, which is used by the C++ exception
unwinder and not controlled by SCTLR_EL1.EnI{A,B}.

It seems like the header comment here, and

+/*
+ * Guest usage of a ptrauth instruction (which the guest EL1 did not turn into
+ * a NOP).
+ */
+static int kvm_handle_ptrauth(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
+

here, need updating.


r~

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