ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs
This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.
Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.
Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.
The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.
The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.
Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index 7d63bea..337f102 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@
* 110x 0 1 0 r/w r/o
* 11x0 0 1 0 r/w r/o
* 1111 0 1 1 r/w r/w
+ *
+ * If !CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS, the following permissions are changed:
+ * 110x 1 1 1 r/o r/o
+ * 11x0 1 1 1 r/o r/o
*/
.macro armv6_mt_table pfx
\pfx\()_mt_table:
@@ -138,8 +142,11 @@
tst r1, #L_PTE_USER
orrne r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_AP1
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS
+ @ allow kernel read/write access to read-only user pages
tstne r3, #PTE_EXT_APX
bicne r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_APX | PTE_EXT_AP0
+#endif
tst r1, #L_PTE_EXEC
orreq r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_XN