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Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: 2021-03-09 14:40:42
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:26:46PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:45:05PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
quoted
It recently became apparent that the ARMv8 architecture has interesting
rules regarding attributes being used when fetching instructions
if the MMU is off at Stage-1.

In this situation, the CPU is allowed to fetch from the PoC and
allocate into the I-cache (unless the memory is mapped with
the XN attribute at Stage-2).

If we transpose this to vcpus sharing a single physical CPU,
it is possible for a vcpu running with its MMU off to influence
another vcpu running with its MMU on, as the latter is expected to
fetch from the PoU (and self-patching code doesn't flush below that
level).

In order to solve this, reuse the vcpu-private TLB invalidation
code to apply the same policy to the I-cache, nuking it every time
the vcpu runs on a physical CPU that ran another vcpu of the same
VM in the past.

This involve renaming __kvm_tlb_flush_local_vmid() to
__kvm_flush_cpu_context(), and inserting a local i-cache invalidation
there.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h   | 4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c               | 7 ++++++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 6 +++---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/tlb.c      | 3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/tlb.c       | 3 ++-
 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Since the FWB discussion doesn't affect the correctness of this patch:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
I agree. We can optimise it later for FWB.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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