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From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
To: drjones@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 6/6] arm64: Disable TTBR1_EL1 translation table walks
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:42:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210227104201.14403-7-alexandru.elisei@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210227104201.14403-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com>

From an architectural point of view, the PE can speculate instruction
fetches and data reads at any time when the MMU is enabled using the
translation tables from TTBR0_EL1 and TTBR1_EL1. kvm-unit-tests uses an
identity map, and as such it only programs TTBR0_EL1 with a valid table and
leaves TTBR1_EL1 unchanged. The reset value for TTBR1_EL1 is UNKNOWN, which
means it is possible for the PE to perform reads from memory locations
where accesses can cause side effects (like memory-mapped devices) as part
of the speculated translation table walk.

So far, this hasn't been a problem, because KVM resets TTBR{0,1}_EL1 to
zero, and that address is used for emulation for both qemu and kvmtool and
it doesn't point to a real device. However, kvm-unit-tests shouldn't rely
on a particular combination of hypervisor and userspace for correctness.
Another situation where we can't rely on these assumptions being true is
when kvm-unit-tests is run as an EFI app.

To prevent reads from arbitrary addresses, set the TCR_EL1.EPD1 bit to
disable speculative translation table walks using TTBR1_EL1.

This is similar to EDK2 commit fafb7e9c110e ("ArmPkg: correct TTBR1_EL1
settings in TCR_EL1"). Also mentioned in that commit is the Cortex-A57
erratum 822227 which impacts the hypervisor, but kvm-unit-tests is
protected against it because asm_mmu_enable sets both the TCR_EL1.TG0 and
TCR_EL1.TG1 bits when programming the register.

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
---
 lib/arm64/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 +
 arm/cstart64.S                | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/arm64/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h b/lib/arm64/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
index 48a1d1ab1ac2..8c41fe123fb3 100644
--- a/lib/arm64/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
+++ b/lib/arm64/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
 #define TCR_ORGN_WBnWA		((UL(3) << 10) | (UL(3) << 26))
 #define TCR_ORGN_MASK		((UL(3) << 10) | (UL(3) << 26))
 #define TCR_SHARED		((UL(3) << 12) | (UL(3) << 28))
+#define TCR_EPD1		(UL(1) << 23)
 #define TCR_TG0_4K		(UL(0) << 14)
 #define TCR_TG0_64K		(UL(1) << 14)
 #define TCR_TG0_16K		(UL(2) << 14)
diff --git a/arm/cstart64.S b/arm/cstart64.S
index 42a838ff4c38..3d359c8387c9 100644
--- a/arm/cstart64.S
+++ b/arm/cstart64.S
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ asm_mmu_enable:
 	ldr	x1, =TCR_TxSZ(VA_BITS) |		\
 		     TCR_TG_FLAGS  |			\
 		     TCR_IRGN_WBWA | TCR_ORGN_WBWA |	\
-		     TCR_SHARED
+		     TCR_SHARED |			\
+		     TCR_EPD1
 	mrs	x2, id_aa64mmfr0_el1
 	bfi	x1, x2, #32, #3
 	msr	tcr_el1, x1
-- 
2.30.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-27 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-27 10:41 [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 0/6] Misc assembly fixes and cleanups Alexandru Elisei
2021-02-27 10:41 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 1/6] arm64: Remove unnecessary ISB when writing to SPSel Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-03 17:35   ` Andre Przywara
2021-02-27 10:41 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 2/6] arm/arm64: Remove dcache_line_size global variable Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-04 15:00   ` Andre Przywara
2021-03-15 15:46     ` Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-16 15:40       ` Andre Przywara
2021-03-22 12:01         ` Alexandru Elisei
2021-02-27 10:41 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 3/6] arm/arm64: Remove unnecessary ISB when doing dcache maintenance Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-12 14:59   ` Andrew Jones
2021-03-15 16:22     ` Alexandru Elisei
2021-02-27 10:41 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 4/6] lib: arm64: Consolidate register definitions to sysreg.h Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-03 17:32   ` Andre Przywara
2021-02-27 10:42 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 5/6] arm64: Configure SCTLR_EL1 at boot Alexandru Elisei
2021-03-03 17:32   ` Andre Przywara
2021-02-27 10:42 ` Alexandru Elisei [this message]
2021-03-03 17:32   ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 6/6] arm64: Disable TTBR1_EL1 translation table walks Andre Przywara

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