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authorChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>2018-07-16 15:06:26 +0200
committerMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>2018-07-21 16:02:29 +0100
commit32f8777ed92d73e504840a955a9dc92617826b69 (patch)
tree349fd8832cadb05bc3899d061a07f596c03d7cdc /virt
parentd53c2c29ae0dfac1e062939afeaeaa1a45cc47a3 (diff)
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KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Let userspace opt-in to writable v2 IGROUPR
Simply letting IGROUPR be writable from userspace would break migration from old kernels to newer kernels, because old kernels incorrectly report interrupt groups as group 1. This would not be a big problem if userspace wrote GICD_IIDR as read from the kernel, because we could detect the incompatibility and return an error to userspace. Unfortunately, this is not the case with current userspace implementations and simply letting IGROUPR be writable from userspace for an emulated GICv2 silently breaks migration and causes the destination VM to no longer run after migration. We now encourage userspace to write the read and expected value of GICD_IIDR as the first part of a GIC register restore, and if we observe a write to GICD_IIDR we know that userspace has been updated and has had a chance to cope with older kernels (VGICv2 IIDR.Revision == 0) incorrectly reporting interrupts as group 1, and therefore we now allow groups to be user writable. Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c
index ee164f831401..26654f4140ed 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ static int vgic_mmio_uaccess_write_v2_misc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
case GIC_DIST_IIDR:
if (val != vgic_mmio_read_v2_misc(vcpu, addr, len))
return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * If we observe a write to GICD_IIDR we know that userspace
+ * has been updated and has had a chance to cope with older
+ * kernels (VGICv2 IIDR.Revision == 0) incorrectly reporting
+ * interrupts as group 1, and therefore we now allow groups to
+ * be user writable. Doing this by default would break
+ * migration from old kernels to new kernels with legacy
+ * userspace.
+ */
+ vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.v2_groups_user_writable = true;
+ return 0;
}
vgic_mmio_write_v2_misc(vcpu, addr, len, val);
@@ -95,7 +107,9 @@ static int vgic_mmio_uaccess_write_v2_group(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
gpa_t addr, unsigned int len,
unsigned long val)
{
- /* Ignore writes from userspace */
+ if (vcpu->kvm->arch.vgic.v2_groups_user_writable)
+ vgic_mmio_write_group(vcpu, addr, len, val);
+
return 0;
}