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Marc Zyngier 38563c1ff0 KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported
Commit 7d717558dd5ef10d28866750d5c24ff892ea3778 upstream.

KVM/arm64 has forever used a 40bit default IPA space, partially
due to its 32bit heritage (where the only choice is 40bit).

However, there are implementations in the wild that have a *cough*
much smaller *cough* IPA space, which leads to a misprogramming of
VTCR_EL2, and a guest that is stuck on its first memory access
if userspace dares to ask for the default IPA setting (which most
VMMs do).

Instead, blundly reject the creation of such VM, as we can't
satisfy the requirements from userspace (with a one-off warning).
Also clarify the boot warning, and document that the VM creation
will fail when an unsupported IPA size is provided.

Although this is an ABI change, it doesn't really change much
for userspace:

- the guest couldn't run before this change, but no error was
  returned. At least userspace knows what is happening.

- a memory slot that was accepted because it did fit the default
  IPA space now doesn't even get a chance to be registered.

The other thing that is left doing is to convince userspace to
actually use the IPA space setting instead of relying on the
antiquated default.

Fixes: 233a7cb235 ("kvm: arm64: Allow tuning the physical address size for VM")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210311100016.3830038-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
arch KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
block blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary 2021-03-04 10:26:40 +01:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 10:26:29 +01:00
crypto crypto: tcrypt - avoid signed overflow in byte count 2021-03-07 12:20:46 +01:00
Documentation KVM: arm64: Reject VM creation when the default IPA size is unsupported 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
drivers nvme: release namespace head reference on error 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
fs binfmt_misc: fix possible deadlock in bm_register_write 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
include include/linux/sched/mm.h: use rcu_dereference in in_vfork() 2021-03-17 17:03:56 +01:00
init fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-02-10 09:25:29 +01:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:20:16 +02:00
kernel sched/membarrier: fix missing local execution of ipi_sync_rq_state() 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
lib PCI: Fix pci_register_io_range() memory leak 2021-03-17 17:03:44 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Revert "mm, slub: consider rest of partial list if acquire_slab() fails" 2021-03-17 17:03:34 +01:00
net SUNRPC: Set memalloc_nofs_save() for sync tasks 2021-03-17 17:03:56 +01:00
samples samples, bpf: Add missing munmap in xdpsock 2021-03-17 17:03:33 +01:00
scripts ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount 2021-03-09 11:09:39 +01:00
security Revert 95ebabde382c ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities") 2021-03-17 17:03:47 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Apply the control quirk to Plantronics headsets 2021-03-17 17:03:47 +01:00
tools perf traceevent: Ensure read cmdlines are null terminated. 2021-03-17 17:03:37 +01:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-08 09:08:38 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM 2021-03-17 17:03:57 +01:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
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