[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 029/210] arm64: mdscr_el1: avoid exposing DCC to userspace
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jan 29 01:16:07 UTC 2016
3.19.8-ckt14 -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 d8d23fa0f27f3b2942a7bbc7378c7735324ed519 upstream.
We don't want to expose the DCC to userspace, particularly as there is
a kernel console driver for it.
This patch resets mdscr_el1 to disable userspace access to the DCC
registers on the cold boot path.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
index 4e778b1..bccdaf5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ ENTRY(__cpu_setup)
mov x0, #3 << 20
msr cpacr_el1, x0 // Enable FP/ASIMD
- msr mdscr_el1, xzr // Reset mdscr_el1
+ mov x0, #1 << 12 // Reset mdscr_el1 and disable
+ msr mdscr_el1, x0 // access to the DCC from EL0
/*
* Memory region attributes for LPAE:
*
--
1.9.1
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