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Re: [PATCH v13 7/8] KVM: arm64: ioctl to fetch/store tags in a guest
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Steven Price |
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Re: [PATCH v13 7/8] KVM: arm64: ioctl to fetch/store tags in a guest |
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Fri, 4 Jun 2021 12:15:56 +0100 |
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On 03/06/2021 18:13, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:45:12AM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> index 24223adae150..b3edde68bc3e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
>> @@ -184,6 +184,17 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_events {
>> __u32 reserved[12];
>> };
>>
>> +struct kvm_arm_copy_mte_tags {
>> + __u64 guest_ipa;
>> + __u64 length;
>> + void __user *addr;
>> + __u64 flags;
>> + __u64 reserved[2];
>> +};
>> +
>> +#define KVM_ARM_TAGS_TO_GUEST 0
>> +#define KVM_ARM_TAGS_FROM_GUEST 1
>> +
>> /* If you need to interpret the index values, here is the key: */
>> #define KVM_REG_ARM_COPROC_MASK 0x000000000FFF0000
>> #define KVM_REG_ARM_COPROC_SHIFT 16
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
>> index e89a5e275e25..baa33359e477 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
>> @@ -1345,6 +1345,13 @@ long kvm_arch_vm_ioctl(struct file *filp,
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>> + case KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS: {
>> + struct kvm_arm_copy_mte_tags copy_tags;
>> +
>> + if (copy_from_user(©_tags, argp, sizeof(copy_tags)))
>> + return -EFAULT;
>> + return kvm_vm_ioctl_mte_copy_tags(kvm, ©_tags);
>> + }
>
> I wonder whether we need an update of the user structure following a
> fault, like how much was copied etc. In case of an error, some tags were
> copied and the VMM may want to skip the page before continuing. But here
> there's no such information provided.
>
> On the ptrace interface, we return 0 on the syscall if any bytes were
> copied and update iov_len to such number. Maybe you want to still return
> an error here but updating copy_tags.length would be nice (and, of
> course, a copy_to_user() back).
>
Good idea - as you suggest I'll make it update length with the number of
bytes not processed. Although in general I think we're expecting the VMM
to know where the memory is so this is more of a programming error - but
could still be useful for debugging.
Thanks,
Steve