linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/13] RISC-V: KVM: Don't treat SBI HFENCE calls as NOPs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20250605061458.196003-3-apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Date: Thu,  5 Jun 2025 11:44:47 +0530
From: Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
To: Atish Patra <atish.patra@...ux.dev>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
	Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
	Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
	Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
Subject: [PATCH 02/13] RISC-V: KVM: Don't treat SBI HFENCE calls as NOPs

The SBI specification clearly states that SBI HFENCE calls should
return SBI_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED when one of the target hart doesn’t
support hypervisor extension (aka nested virtualization in-case
of KVM RISC-V).

Fixes: c7fa3c48de86 ("RISC-V: KVM: Treat SBI HFENCE calls as NOPs")
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
---
 arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c
index 9752d2ffff68..b17fad091bab 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_replace.c
@@ -127,9 +127,9 @@ static int kvm_sbi_ext_rfence_handler(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run
 	case SBI_EXT_RFENCE_REMOTE_HFENCE_VVMA_ASID:
 		/*
 		 * Until nested virtualization is implemented, the
-		 * SBI HFENCE calls should be treated as NOPs
+		 * SBI HFENCE calls should return not supported
+		 * hence fallthrough.
 		 */
-		break;
 	default:
 		retdata->err_val = SBI_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0