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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:32:49 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] arm64: Introduce
uaccess_{disable, enable} functionality based on TTBR0_EL1
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 02:55:12PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 6 September 2016 at 11:45, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:42AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 06:20:38PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 04:02:09PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >> > > * tables again to remove any speculatively loaded cache lines.
> >> > > */
> >> > > mov x0, x25
> >> > > - add x1, x26, #SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE
> >> > > + add x1, x26, #SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE + RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE
> >> > > dmb sy
> >> > > bl __inval_cache_range
> >> > >
> >> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> >> > > index 659963d40bb4..fe393ccf9352 100644
> >> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> >> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> >> > > @@ -196,6 +196,11 @@ SECTIONS
> >> > > swapper_pg_dir = .;
> >> > > . += SWAPPER_DIR_SIZE;
> >> > >
> >> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_TTBR0_PAN
> >> > > + reserved_ttbr0 = .;
> >> > > + . += PAGE_SIZE;
> >> > > +#endif
> >> >
> >> > Surely RESERVED_TTBR0_SIZE, as elsewhere?
> >>
> >> I'll try to move it somewhere where it can be included in vmlinux.lds.S
> >> (I can probably include cpufeature.h directly).
>
> Do we really need another zero page? The ordinary zero page is already
> statically allocated these days, so we could simply move it between
> idmap_pg_dir[] and swapper_pg_dir[], and get all the changes in the
> early boot code for free (given that it covers the range between the
> start of idmap_pg_dir[] and the end of swapper_pg_dir[])
>
> That way, we could refer to __pa(empty_zero_page) anywhere by reading
> ttbr1_el1 and subtracting PAGE_SIZE
That's fine by me. I'll cherry-pick your patch and rebase this series on
top.
--
Catalin
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