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File 5faac497-xen-arm-Always-trap-AMU-system-registers.patch of Package xen.30827

# Commit 628e1becb6fb121475a6ce68e3f1cb4499851255
# Date 2020-11-10 16:49:27 +0000
# Author Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
# Committer Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
xen/arm: Always trap AMU system registers

The Activity Monitors Unit (AMU) has been introduced by ARMv8.4. It is
considered to be unsafe to be expose to guests as they might expose
information about code executed by other guests or the host.

Arm provided a way to trap all the AMU system registers by setting
CPTR_EL2.TAM to 1.

Unfortunately, on older revision of the specification, the bit 30 (now
CPTR_EL1.TAM) was RES0. Because of that, Xen is setting it to 0 and
therefore the system registers would be exposed to the guest when it is
run on processors with AMU.

As the bit is mark as UNKNOWN at boot in Armv8.4, the only safe solution
for us is to always set CPTR_EL1.TAM to 1.

Guest trying to access the AMU system registers will now receive an
undefined instruction. Unfortunately, this means that even well-behaved
guest may fail to boot because we don't sanitize the ID registers.

This is a known issues with other Armv8.0+ features (e.g. SVE, Pointer
Auth). This will taken care separately.

This is part of XSA-351 (or XSA-93 re-born).

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@arm.com>

--- a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ void init_traps(void)
      * On ARM64 the TCPx bits which we set here (0..9,12,13) are all
      * RES1, i.e. they would trap whether we did this write or not.
      */
-    WRITE_SYSREG((HCPTR_CP_MASK & ~(HCPTR_CP(10) | HCPTR_CP(11))) | HCPTR_TTA,
+    WRITE_SYSREG((HCPTR_CP_MASK & ~(HCPTR_CP(10) | HCPTR_CP(11))) |
+                 HCPTR_TTA | HCPTR_TAM,
                  CPTR_EL2);
 
     /*
--- a/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h
@@ -295,6 +295,7 @@
 #define VTCR_RES1       (_AC(1,UL)<<31)
 
 /* HCPTR Hyp. Coprocessor Trap Register */
+#define HCPTR_TAM       ((_AC(1,U)<<30))
 #define HCPTR_TTA       ((_AC(1,U)<<20))        /* Trap trace registers */
 #define HCPTR_CP(x)     ((_AC(1,U)<<(x)))       /* Trap Coprocessor x */
 #define HCPTR_CP_MASK   ((_AC(1,U)<<14)-1)

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