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/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index 72ad3e1..79c01f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include <asm/highmem.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <asm/mach/arch.h>
#include <asm/mach/map.h>
@@ -914,12 +915,11 @@
{
struct map_desc map;
unsigned long addr;
- void *vectors;
/*
* Allocate the vector page early.
*/
- vectors = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
+ vectors_page = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
for (addr = VMALLOC_END; addr; addr += PGDIR_SIZE)
pmd_clear(pmd_off_k(addr));
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@
* location (0xffff0000). If we aren't using high-vectors, also
* create a mapping at the low-vectors virtual address.
*/
- map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(virt_to_phys(vectors));
+ map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(virt_to_phys(vectors_page));
map.virtual = 0xffff0000;
map.length = PAGE_SIZE;
map.type = MT_HIGH_VECTORS;