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[02/56] KVM: arm64: Allow ARM64_PTR_AUTH when ARM64_VHE=n

Message ID 20200805175700.62775-3-maz@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit dfb0589c8fff9dde809b9013335a6b8019b299b8
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Series [01/56] KVM: arm64: Enable Address Authentication at EL2 if available | expand

Commit Message

Marc Zyngier Aug. 5, 2020, 5:56 p.m. UTC
We currently prevent PtrAuth from even being built if KVM is selected,
but VHE isn't. It is a bit of a pointless restriction, since we also
check this at run time (rejecting the enabling of PtrAuth for the
vcpu if we're not running with VHE).

Just drop this apparently useless restriction.

Acked-by: Andrew Scull <ascull@google.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 31380da53689..d719ea9c596d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1516,7 +1516,6 @@  menu "ARMv8.3 architectural features"
 config ARM64_PTR_AUTH
 	bool "Enable support for pointer authentication"
 	default y
-	depends on !KVM || ARM64_VHE
 	depends on (CC_HAS_SIGN_RETURN_ADDRESS || CC_HAS_BRANCH_PROT_PAC_RET) && AS_HAS_PAC
 	# GCC 9.1 and later inserts a .note.gnu.property section note for PAC
 	# which is only understood by binutils starting with version 2.33.1.
@@ -1543,8 +1542,7 @@  config ARM64_PTR_AUTH
 
 	  The feature is detected at runtime. If the feature is not present in
 	  hardware it will not be advertised to userspace/KVM guest nor will it
-	  be enabled. However, KVM guest also require VHE mode and hence
-	  CONFIG_ARM64_VHE=y option to use this feature.
+	  be enabled.
 
 	  If the feature is present on the boot CPU but not on a late CPU, then
 	  the late CPU will be parked. Also, if the boot CPU does not have