From: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:42:30 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: KVM: arm64: nv: Respect stage-2 write permssion when setting stage-1 AF
X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc7~17^2^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e27085c33cca7ad26bec0af2c17aab072dd802e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

KVM: arm64: nv: Respect stage-2 write permssion when setting stage-1 AF

Naturally, updating the Access Flag in a stage-1 descriptor requires
write permission at stage-2, although this isn't actually enforced in
KVM's software PTW.

Generate a stage-2 permission fault if the stage-1 walk attempts to
update the descriptor and its corresponding stage-2 translation lacks
write permission.

Fixes: bff8aa213dee ("KVM: arm64: Implement HW access flag management in stage-1 SW PTW")
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20260108204230.677172-1-oupton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
index 53bf70126f81..808d26bed182 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/at.c
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ static int walk_s1(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct s1_walk_info *wi,
 		   struct s1_walk_result *wr, u64 va)
 {
 	u64 va_top, va_bottom, baddr, desc, new_desc, ipa;
+	struct kvm_s2_trans s2_trans = {};
 	int level, stride, ret;
 
 	level = wi->sl;
@@ -420,8 +421,6 @@ static int walk_s1(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct s1_walk_info *wi,
 		ipa = baddr | index;
 
 		if (wi->s2) {
-			struct kvm_s2_trans s2_trans = {};
-
 			ret = kvm_walk_nested_s2(vcpu, ipa, &s2_trans);
 			if (ret) {
 				fail_s1_walk(wr,
@@ -515,6 +514,11 @@ static int walk_s1(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct s1_walk_info *wi,
 		new_desc |= PTE_AF;
 
 	if (new_desc != desc) {
+		if (wi->s2 && !kvm_s2_trans_writable(&s2_trans)) {
+			fail_s1_walk(wr, ESR_ELx_FSC_PERM_L(level), true);
+			return -EPERM;
+		}
+
 		ret = kvm_swap_s1_desc(vcpu, ipa, desc, new_desc, wi);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;