Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix error checking for FFA_VERSION
From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-08 15:47:47
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 11:11:53AM +0000, Kornel Dulęba wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
According to section 13.2 of the DEN0077 FF-A specification, when firmware does not support the requested version, it should reply with FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED(-1). Table 13.6 specifies the type of the error code as int32. Currently, the error checking logic compares the unsigned long return value it got from the SMC layer, against a "-1" literal. This fails due to a type mismatch: the literal is extended to 64 bits, whereas the register contains only 32 bits of ones(0x00000000ffffffff). Consequently, hyp_ffa_init misinterprets the "-1" return value as an invalid FF-A version. This prevents pKVM initialization on devices where FF-A is not supported in firmware. Fix this by explicitly casting res.a0 to s32. Signed-off-by: Kornel Dulęba <redacted> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c index 58b7d0c477d7fce235fc70d089d175c7879861b5..ab1e53bd4ceeea431fc30a875482ed1523b01ab5 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ static void do_ffa_version(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res, .a0 = FFA_VERSION, .a1 = ffa_req_version, }, res); - if (res->a0 == FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED) + if ((s32)res->a0 == FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED) goto unlock; hyp_ffa_version = ffa_req_version;@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ int hyp_ffa_init(void *pages) .a0 = FFA_VERSION, .a1 = FFA_VERSION_1_2, }, &res); - if (res.a0 == FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED) + if ((s32)res.a0 == FFA_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED) return 0; /*
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Will