linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] KVM: arm64: Add a vcpu flag to control ptrauth for guest

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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:30:50 +0100
From:   Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To:     Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/5] KVM: arm64: Add a vcpu flag to control ptrauth
 for guest

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 08:50:32AM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> A per vcpu flag is added to check if pointer authentication is
> enabled for the vcpu or not. This flag may be enabled according to
> the necessary user policies and host capabilities.
> 
> This patch also adds a helper to check the flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
> Cc: kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>

> ---
> 
> Changes since v8:
> * Added a new per vcpu flag which will store Pointer Authentication enable
>   status instead of checking them again. [Dave Martin]
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 9d57cf8..31dbc7c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -355,10 +355,14 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
>  #define KVM_ARM64_HOST_SVE_ENABLED	(1 << 4) /* SVE enabled for EL0 */
>  #define KVM_ARM64_GUEST_HAS_SVE		(1 << 5) /* SVE exposed to guest */
>  #define KVM_ARM64_VCPU_SVE_FINALIZED	(1 << 6) /* SVE config completed */
> +#define KVM_ARM64_GUEST_HAS_PTRAUTH	(1 << 7) /* PTRAUTH exposed to guest */
>  
>  #define vcpu_has_sve(vcpu) (system_supports_sve() && \
>  			    ((vcpu)->arch.flags & KVM_ARM64_GUEST_HAS_SVE))
>  
> +#define vcpu_has_ptrauth(vcpu)	\
> +			((vcpu)->arch.flags & KVM_ARM64_GUEST_HAS_PTRAUTH)
> +
>  #define vcpu_gp_regs(v)		(&(v)->arch.ctxt.gp_regs)
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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