linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 22/28] arm64: Don't expose stolen time for realm guests

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Message-Id: <20230127112932.38045-23-steven.price@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:29:26 +0000
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev
Cc:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>,
        Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [RFC PATCH 22/28] arm64: Don't expose stolen time for realm guests

It doesn't make much sense and with the ABI as it is it's a footgun for
the VMM which makes fatal granule protection faults easy to trigger.

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 46c152a9a150..645df5968e1e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -302,7 +302,10 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
 		r = system_supports_mte();
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME:
-		r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported();
+		if (kvm && kvm_is_realm(kvm))
+			r = 0;
+		else
+			r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported();
 		break;
 	case KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT:
 		r = cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL1);
-- 
2.34.1