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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 04/13] arm64/kvm: hide ptrauth from guests
On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:39:22 +0000,
Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com> wrote:
>
> From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>
> In subsequent patches we're going to expose ptrauth to the host kernel
> and userspace, but things are a bit trickier for guest kernels. For the
> time being, let's hide ptrauth from KVM guests.
>
> Regardless of how well-behaved the guest kernel is, guest userspace
> could attempt to use ptrauth instructions, triggering a trap to EL2,
> resulting in noise from kvm_handle_unknown_ec(). So let's write up a
> handler for the PAC trap, which silently injects an UNDEF into the
> guest, as if the feature were really missing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

M.

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