Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] arm64: KVM: Do not corrupt registers on failed 64bit CP read

[Marc Zyngier]

On 28/03/17 13:46, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:03:43PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> If we fail to emulate a mrrc instruction, we:
>> 1) deliver an exception,
>> 2) spit a nastygram on the console,
>> 3) write back some garbage to Rt/Rt2
>>
>> While 1) and 2) are perfectly acceptable, 3) is out of the scope of
>> the architecture... Let's mimick the code in kvm_handle_cp_32 and
>> be more cautious.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyng...@arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 20 +++++++++-----------
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>> index 4e5d4eee8cec..1080a76e960f 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
>> @@ -1678,20 +1678,18 @@ static int kvm_handle_cp_64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>              params.regval |= vcpu_get_reg(vcpu, Rt2) << 32;
>>      }
>>  
>> -    if (!emulate_cp(vcpu, &params, target_specific, nr_specific))
>> -            goto out;
>> -    if (!emulate_cp(vcpu, &params, global, nr_global))
>> -            goto out;
>> -
>> -    unhandled_cp_access(vcpu, &params);
>> +    if (!emulate_cp(vcpu, &params, target_specific, nr_specific) ||
>> +        !emulate_cp(vcpu, &params, global, nr_global)) {
> 
> super nit: I choked a bit on this contruct, any objections to adding a
> comment like the following above:
> 
>       /*
>        * Try to emulate the coprocessor access using the target
>        * specific table first, and using the global table aftwards.
>        * If either of the tables contains a handler, handle the
>        * potential register operation in the case of a read and return
>        * with success.
>        */
> 
> Too much?
> 
> (If not, I can also add this when applying).

No, that's great. Thanks!

        M.
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