[PATCH 3.13 007/151] ARM: 7954/1: mm: remove remaining domain support from ARMv6

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri May 2 15:36:35 UTC 2014


3.13.11.1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

commit b6ccb9803e90c16b212cf4ed62913a7591e79a39 upstream.

CPU_32v6 currently selects CPU_USE_DOMAINS if CPU_V6 and MMU. This is
because ARM 1136 r0pX CPUs lack the v6k extensions, and therefore do
not have hardware thread registers. The lack of these registers requires
the kernel to update the vectors page at each context switch in order to
write a new TLS pointer. This write must be done via the userspace
mapping, since aliasing caches can lead to expensive flushing when using
kmap. Finally, this requires the vectors page to be mapped r/w for
kernel and r/o for user, which has implications for things like put_user
which must trigger CoW appropriately when targetting user pages.

The upshot of all this is that a v6/v7 kernel makes use of domains to
segregate kernel and user memory accesses. This has the nasty
side-effect of making device mappings executable, which has been
observed to cause subtle bugs on recent cores (e.g. Cortex-A15
performing a speculative instruction fetch from the GIC and acking an
interrupt in the process).

This patch solves this problem by removing the remaining domain support
from ARMv6. A new memory type is added specifically for the vectors page
which allows that page (and only that page) to be mapped as user r/o,
kernel r/w. All other user r/o pages are mapped also as kernel r/o.
Patch co-developed with Russell King.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h          |  6 ------
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h |  1 +
 arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                   |  3 +--
 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c                     | 10 ++++++++++
 arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S             | 19 ++++++-------------
 arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S          |  7 -------
 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
index e42cf59..2aff798 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -3,11 +3,6 @@
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
-/* ARM doesn't provide unprivileged exclusive memory accessors */
-#include <asm-generic/futex.h>
-#else
-
 #include <linux/futex.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/errno.h>
@@ -164,6 +159,5 @@ futex_atomic_op_inuser (int encoded_op, u32 __user *uaddr)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-#endif /* !(CPU_USE_DOMAINS && SMP) */
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_ARM_FUTEX_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
index 86a659a..daba57e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
 #define L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0c) << 2)	/* 1100 */
 #define L_PTE_MT_DEV_WC		(_AT(pteval_t, 0x09) << 2)	/* 1001 */
 #define L_PTE_MT_DEV_CACHED	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0b) << 2)	/* 1011 */
+#define L_PTE_MT_VECTORS	(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0f) << 2)	/* 1111 */
 #define L_PTE_MT_MASK		(_AT(pteval_t, 0x0f) << 2)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 1f8fed9..ca8ecde 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -446,7 +446,6 @@ config CPU_32v5
 
 config CPU_32v6
 	bool
-	select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if CPU_V6 && MMU
 	select TLS_REG_EMUL if !CPU_32v6K && !MMU
 
 config CPU_32v6K
@@ -671,7 +670,7 @@ config ARM_VIRT_EXT
 
 config SWP_EMULATE
 	bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions"
-	depends on !CPU_USE_DOMAINS && CPU_V7
+	depends on CPU_V7
 	default y if SMP
 	select HAVE_PROC_CPU if PROC_FS
 	help
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index 911d433..dd0949f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -466,6 +466,16 @@ static void __init build_mem_type_table(void)
 	s2_device_pgprot = mem_types[MT_DEVICE].prot_pte_s2;
 
 	/*
+	 * We don't use domains on ARMv6 (since this causes problems with
+	 * v6/v7 kernels), so we must use a separate memory type for user
+	 * r/o, kernel r/w to map the vectors page.
+	 */
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
+	if (cpu_arch == CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
+		vecs_pgprot |= L_PTE_MT_VECTORS;
+#endif
+
+	/*
 	 * ARMv6 and above have extended page tables.
 	 */
 	if (cpu_arch >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6 && (cr & CR_XP)) {
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
index e3c48a3..ee1d805 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-macros.S
@@ -112,13 +112,9 @@
  *  100x   1   0   1	r/o	no acc
  *  10x0   1   0   1	r/o	no acc
  *  1011   0   0   1	r/w	no acc
- *  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
+ *  1111   0   1   1	r/w	r/w
  */
 	.macro	armv6_mt_table pfx
 \pfx\()_mt_table:
@@ -137,7 +133,7 @@
 	.long	PTE_EXT_TEX(2)					@ L_PTE_MT_DEV_NONSHARED
 	.long	0x00						@ unused
 	.long	0x00						@ unused
-	.long	0x00						@ unused
+	.long	PTE_CACHEABLE | PTE_BUFFERABLE | PTE_EXT_APX	@ L_PTE_MT_VECTORS
 	.endm
 
 	.macro	armv6_set_pte_ext pfx
@@ -158,24 +154,21 @@
 
 	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
+
+	@ user read-only -> kernel read-only
+	bicne	r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_AP0
 
 	tst	r1, #L_PTE_XN
 	orrne	r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_XN
 
-	orr	r3, r3, r2
+	eor	r3, r3, r2
 
 	tst	r1, #L_PTE_YOUNG
 	tstne	r1, #L_PTE_PRESENT
 	moveq	r3, #0
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS
 	tstne	r1, #L_PTE_NONE
 	movne	r3, #0
-#endif
 
 	str	r3, [r0]
 	mcr	p15, 0, r0, c7, c10, 1		@ flush_pte
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
index bdd3be4..1f52915 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/proc-v7-2level.S
@@ -90,21 +90,14 @@ ENTRY(cpu_v7_set_pte_ext)
 
 	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_XN
 	orrne	r3, r3, #PTE_EXT_XN
 
 	tst	r1, #L_PTE_YOUNG
 	tstne	r1, #L_PTE_VALID
-#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS
 	eorne	r1, r1, #L_PTE_NONE
 	tstne	r1, #L_PTE_NONE
-#endif
 	moveq	r3, #0
 
  ARM(	str	r3, [r0, #2048]! )
-- 
1.9.1





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