arm64: KVM: Allow unaligned accesses at EL2

commit 78fd6dc upstream. We currently have the SCTLR_EL2.A bit set, trapping unaligned accesses at EL2, but we're not really prepared to deal with it. So far, this has been unnoticed, until GCC 7 started emitting those (in particular 64bit writes on a 32bit boundary). Since the rest of the kernel is pretty happy about that, let's follow its example and set SCTLR_EL2.A to zero. Modern CPUs don't really care. Reported-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
anholt · Jun 14, 2017 · 8abce1e · 8abce1e
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp-init.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp-init.S
@@ -104,9 +104,10 @@ __do_hyp_init:
 
 	/*
 	 * Preserve all the RES1 bits while setting the default flags,
-	 * as well as the EE bit on BE.
+	 * as well as the EE bit on BE. Drop the A flag since the compiler
+	 * is allowed to generate unaligned accesses.
 	 */
-	ldr	x4, =(SCTLR_EL2_RES1 | SCTLR_ELx_FLAGS)
+	ldr	x4, =(SCTLR_EL2_RES1 | (SCTLR_ELx_FLAGS & ~SCTLR_ELx_A))
 CPU_BE(	orr	x4, x4, #SCTLR_ELx_EE)
 	msr	sctlr_el2, x4
 	isb