linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 73/96] KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer

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Message-Id: <20200213151906.900631571@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:21:20 -0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 73/96] KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer

From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>

commit 4a267aa707953a9a73d1f5dc7f894dd9024a92be upstream.

According to the ARM ARM, registers CNT{P,V}_TVAL_EL0 have bits [63:32]
RES0 [1]. When reading the register, the value is truncated to the least
significant 32 bits [2], and on writes, TimerValue is treated as a signed
32-bit integer [1, 2].

When the guest behaves correctly and writes 32-bit values, treating TVAL
as an unsigned 64 bit register works as expected. However, things start
to break down when the guest writes larger values, because
(u64)0x1_ffff_ffff = 8589934591. but (s32)0x1_ffff_ffff = -1, and the
former will cause the timer interrupt to be asserted in the future, but
the latter will cause it to be asserted now.  Let's treat TVAL as a
signed 32-bit register on writes, to match the behaviour described in
the architecture, and the behaviour experimentally exhibited by the
virtual timer on a non-vhe host.

[1] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D13.8.18
[2] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D11.2.4

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>
[maz: replaced the read-side mask with lower_32_bits]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Fixes: 8fa761624871 ("KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Fix CNTP_TVAL calculation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127103652.2326-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
@@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ static u64 kvm_arm_timer_read(struct kvm
 	switch (treg) {
 	case TIMER_REG_TVAL:
 		val = timer->cnt_cval - kvm_phys_timer_read() + timer->cntvoff;
+		val &= lower_32_bits(val);
 		break;

 	case TIMER_REG_CTL:
@@ -850,7 +851,7 @@ static void kvm_arm_timer_write(struct k
 {
 	switch (treg) {
 	case TIMER_REG_TVAL:
-		timer->cnt_cval = kvm_phys_timer_read() - timer->cntvoff + val;
+		timer->cnt_cval = kvm_phys_timer_read() - timer->cntvoff + (s32)val;
 		break;

 	case TIMER_REG_CTL: