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Message-Id: <20250716-stable-6-6-sme-feat-filt-v1-1-151d319dc41e@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:08:27 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, 
 Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@....com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y] arm64: Filter out SME hwcaps when FEAT_SME isn't
 implemented

[ Upstream commit a75ad2fc76a2ab70817c7eed3163b66ea84ca6ac ]

We have a number of hwcaps for various SME subfeatures enumerated via
ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1. Currently we advertise these without cross checking
against the main SME feature, advertised in ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.SME which
means that if the two are out of sync userspace can see a confusing
situation where SME subfeatures are advertised without the base SME
hwcap. This can be readily triggered by using the arm64.nosme override
which only masks out ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.SME, and there have also been
reports of VMMs which do the same thing.

Fix this as we did previously for SVE in 064737920bdb ("arm64: Filter
out SVE hwcaps when FEAT_SVE isn't implemented") by filtering out the
SME subfeature hwcaps when FEAT_SME is not present.

Fixes: 5e64b862c482 ("arm64/sme: Basic enumeration support")
Reported-by: Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@....com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620-arm64-sme-filter-hwcaps-v1-1-02b9d3c2d8ef@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 82778258855d..b6d381f743f3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -2804,6 +2804,13 @@ static bool has_sve_feature(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *cap, int scope)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SME
+static bool has_sme_feature(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *cap, int scope)
+{
+	return system_supports_sme() && has_user_cpuid_feature(cap, scope);
+}
+#endif
+
 static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_elf_hwcaps[] = {
 	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1, AES, PMULL, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_PMULL),
 	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64ISAR0_EL1, AES, AES, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_AES),
@@ -2875,20 +2882,20 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_elf_hwcaps[] = {
 	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1, MOPS, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_MOPS),
 	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64ISAR2_EL1, BC, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_HBC),
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SME
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, SME, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, FA64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_FA64),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, SMEver, SME2p1, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME2P1),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, SMEver, SME2, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME2),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, I16I64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I16I64),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F64F64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F64F64),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, I16I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I16I32),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, B16B16, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_B16B16),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F16F16, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F16F16),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, I8I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I8I32),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F16F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F16F32),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, B16F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_B16F32),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, BI32I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_BI32I32),
-	HWCAP_CAP(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F32F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F32F32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, SME, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, FA64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_FA64),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, SMEver, SME2p1, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME2P1),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, SMEver, SME2, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME2),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, I16I64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I16I64),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F64F64, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F64F64),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, I16I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I16I32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, B16B16, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_B16B16),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F16F16, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F16F16),
+	HWCAP_CAP(ID_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, AA64SMFR0_EL1, I8I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_I8I32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F16F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F16F32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, B16F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_B16F32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, BI32I32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_BI32I32),
+	HWCAP_CAP_MATCH_ID(has_sme_feature, ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, F32F32, IMP, CAP_HWCAP, KERNEL_HWCAP_SME_F32F32),
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_SME */
 	{},
 };

---
base-commit: 9247f4e6573a4d05fe70c3e90dbd53da26e8c5cb
change-id: 20250715-stable-6-6-sme-feat-filt-5e942478105f

Best regards,
--  
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>


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