xen/arm: Correctly save/restore CNTKCTL_EL1 CNTKCTL_EL1 is used by the guest to control access to the timer from userspace. It therefore needs to be save/restored by Xen as part of the VCPU state. By default Linux on ARM64 exposes the timer to userspace. Furthermore on ARM64, Linux provides helpers in a VDSO (gettimeofday/__do_get_tspec) that use the timer counter. Conversely, during CPU bring up, Xen will set CNTKCTL_EL1 to 0 (i.e disallow timer access to the userspace). As a result, currently, if dom0 has 1 VCPU which is migrated to another PCPU, init might crash. Alternatively, a guest (malicious or not) might decide to disable access to the timer from userspace. If the register is not save/restored, when a DOM0 VCPU runs again, a similar crash would result. Also, drop CNTKCTL_EL1 initialization in init_timer_interrupt. Xen should let the guest deal with this register. Reported-by: Chen Baozi Signed-off-by: Julien Grall Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Ian Campbell diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c index 3a6cc50..db4b60d 100644 --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void ctxt_switch_from(struct vcpu *p) p->arch.tpidr_el1 = READ_SYSREG(TPIDR_EL1); /* Arch timer */ + p->arch.cntkctl = READ_SYSREG32(CNTKCTL_EL1); virt_timer_save(p); if ( is_32bit_domain(p->domain) && cpu_has_thumbee ) @@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ static void ctxt_switch_to(struct vcpu *n) /* This is could trigger an hardware interrupt from the virtual * timer. The interrupt needs to be injected into the guest. */ + WRITE_SYSREG32(n->arch.cntkctl, CNTKCTL_EL1); virt_timer_restore(n); } diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/time.c b/xen/arch/arm/time.c index 6bbe980..fca1387 100644 --- a/xen/arch/arm/time.c +++ b/xen/arch/arm/time.c @@ -223,7 +223,6 @@ void __cpuinit init_timer_interrupt(void) { /* Sensible defaults */ WRITE_SYSREG64(0, CNTVOFF_EL2); /* No VM-specific offset */ - WRITE_SYSREG32(0, CNTKCTL_EL1); /* No user-mode access */ #if USE_HYP_TIMER /* Do not let the VMs program the physical timer, only read the physical counter */ WRITE_SYSREG32(CNTHCTL_PA, CNTHCTL_EL2); diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h index 50b9b54..4dc1d5a 100644 --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h @@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ struct arch_vcpu spinlock_t lock; } vgic; + /* Timer registers */ + uint32_t cntkctl; + struct vtimer phys_timer; struct vtimer virt_timer; } __cacheline_aligned;