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From: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't hypercall before EL2 init
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 10:41:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YoIqdiOoCf0A1hcV@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfpb59wj.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On Sunday 15 May 2022 at 12:10:20 (+0100), Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Can we simplify the condition? ARM64_SPECTRE_V3A is only set when
> !VHE, and we already bail in kvm_patch_vector_branch() if we see
> VHE+V3A, because the combination makes no sense at all. I think this
> can be rewritten as:
> 
> 	if (kvm_system_needs_idmapped_vectors() &&
> 	    !is_protected_lvm_enabled())
> 
> Thoughts?

Yup I think this works as both CPUs that are vulnerable to V3A aren't
VHE-capable. But if we ever get a VHE-capable CPU that's vulnerable I
think the next call to create_hyp_exec_mappings() will BUG(). Perhaps
the alternative would be to have has_spectre_v3a() say no in VHE to be
on the safe side? That is, prevent the cap from being set to begin with.

Cheers,
Quentin

      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-16 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-13  9:26 [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Don't hypercall before EL2 init Quentin Perret
2022-05-15 11:10 ` Marc Zyngier
2022-05-16 10:41   ` Quentin Perret [this message]

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