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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:38:39 +0000
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64: Setup KUP before feature fixups
On 11/22/2018 02:04 PM, Russell Currey wrote:
> The subsequent implementation of KUAP for radix makes use of a MMU
> feature in order to patch out assembly when KUAP is disabled or
> unsupported. This won't work unless there's an entry point for
> KUP support before the feature magic happens, so relocate
> setup_kup() earlier in setup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>
I squashed it in my RFC v2
Christophe
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> index 0f4e06ab70a5..cc20dc3e7b69 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
> @@ -331,6 +331,12 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
> */
> configure_exceptions();
>
> + /*
> + * Configure Kernel Userspace Protection. This needs to happen before
> + * feature fixups for platforms that implement this using features.
> + */
> + setup_kup();
> +
> /* Apply all the dynamic patching */
> apply_feature_fixups();
> setup_feature_keys();
> @@ -372,7 +378,6 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
> */
> btext_map();
> #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX */
> - setup_kup();
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>
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