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<title>arm64: uaccess: Ensure PAN is re-enabled after unhandled uaccess fault</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T08:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@soleen.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-19T22:10:06+00:00</published>
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commit 94bb804e1e6f0a9a77acf20d7c70ea141c6c821e upstream.

A number of our uaccess routines ('__arch_clear_user()' and
'__arch_copy_{in,from,to}_user()') fail to re-enable PAN if they
encounter an unhandled fault whilst accessing userspace.

For CPUs implementing both hardware PAN and UAO, this bug has no effect
when both extensions are in use by the kernel.

For CPUs implementing hardware PAN but not UAO, this means that a kernel
using hardware PAN may execute portions of code with PAN inadvertently
disabled, opening us up to potential security vulnerabilities that rely
on userspace access from within the kernel which would usually be
prevented by this mechanism. In other words, parts of the kernel run the
same way as they would on a CPU without PAN implemented/emulated at all.

For CPUs not implementing hardware PAN and instead relying on software
emulation via 'CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN=y', the impact is unfortunately
much worse. Calling 'schedule()' with software PAN disabled means that
the next task will execute in the kernel using the page-table and ASID
of the previous process even after 'switch_mm()', since the actual
hardware switch is deferred until return to userspace. At this point, or
if there is a intermediate call to 'uaccess_enable()', the page-table
and ASID of the new process are installed. Sadly, due to the changes
introduced by KPTI, this is not an atomic operation and there is a very
small window (two instructions) where the CPU is configured with the
page-table of the old task and the ASID of the new task; a speculative
access in this state is disastrous because it would corrupt the TLB
entries for the new task with mappings from the previous address space.

As Pavel explains:

  | I was able to reproduce memory corruption problem on Broadcom's SoC
  | ARMv8-A like this:
  |
  | Enable software perf-events with PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN so userland's
  | stack is accessed and copied.
  |
  | The test program performed the following on every CPU and forking
  | many processes:
  |
  |	unsigned long *map = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
  |				  MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
  |	map[0] = getpid();
  |	sched_yield();
  |	if (map[0] != getpid()) {
  |		fprintf(stderr, "Corruption detected!");
  |	}
  |	munmap(map, PAGE_SIZE);
  |
  | From time to time I was getting map[0] to contain pid for a
  | different process.

Ensure that PAN is re-enabled when returning after an unhandled user
fault from our uaccess routines.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 338d4f49d6f7 ("arm64: kernel: Add support for Privileged Access Never")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
[will: rewrote commit message]
[will: backport for 4.9.y stable kernels]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 94bb804e1e6f0a9a77acf20d7c70ea141c6c821e upstream.

A number of our uaccess routines ('__arch_clear_user()' and
'__arch_copy_{in,from,to}_user()') fail to re-enable PAN if they
encounter an unhandled fault whilst accessing userspace.

For CPUs implementing both hardware PAN and UAO, this bug has no effect
when both extensions are in use by the kernel.

For CPUs implementing hardware PAN but not UAO, this means that a kernel
using hardware PAN may execute portions of code with PAN inadvertently
disabled, opening us up to potential security vulnerabilities that rely
on userspace access from within the kernel which would usually be
prevented by this mechanism. In other words, parts of the kernel run the
same way as they would on a CPU without PAN implemented/emulated at all.

For CPUs not implementing hardware PAN and instead relying on software
emulation via 'CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN=y', the impact is unfortunately
much worse. Calling 'schedule()' with software PAN disabled means that
the next task will execute in the kernel using the page-table and ASID
of the previous process even after 'switch_mm()', since the actual
hardware switch is deferred until return to userspace. At this point, or
if there is a intermediate call to 'uaccess_enable()', the page-table
and ASID of the new process are installed. Sadly, due to the changes
introduced by KPTI, this is not an atomic operation and there is a very
small window (two instructions) where the CPU is configured with the
page-table of the old task and the ASID of the new task; a speculative
access in this state is disastrous because it would corrupt the TLB
entries for the new task with mappings from the previous address space.

As Pavel explains:

  | I was able to reproduce memory corruption problem on Broadcom's SoC
  | ARMv8-A like this:
  |
  | Enable software perf-events with PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN so userland's
  | stack is accessed and copied.
  |
  | The test program performed the following on every CPU and forking
  | many processes:
  |
  |	unsigned long *map = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
  |				  MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
  |	map[0] = getpid();
  |	sched_yield();
  |	if (map[0] != getpid()) {
  |		fprintf(stderr, "Corruption detected!");
  |	}
  |	munmap(map, PAGE_SIZE);
  |
  | From time to time I was getting map[0] to contain pid for a
  | different process.

Ensure that PAN is re-enabled when returning after an unhandled user
fault from our uaccess routines.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 338d4f49d6f7 ("arm64: kernel: Add support for Privileged Access Never")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
[will: rewrote commit message]
[will: backport for 4.9.y stable kernels]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: lse: remove -fcall-used-x0 flag</title>
<updated>2018-11-13T19:17:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tri Vo</name>
<email>trong@android.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-19T19:27:50+00:00</published>
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commit 2a6c7c367de82951c98a290a21156770f6f82c84 upstream.

x0 is not callee-saved in the PCS. So there is no need to specify
-fcall-used-x0.

Clang doesn't currently support -fcall-used flags. This patch will help
building the kernel with clang.

Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2a6c7c367de82951c98a290a21156770f6f82c84 upstream.

x0 is not callee-saved in the PCS. So there is no need to specify
-fcall-used-x0.

Clang doesn't currently support -fcall-used flags. This patch will help
building the kernel with clang.

Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tri Vo &lt;trong@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>arm64: uaccess: Mask __user pointers for __arch_{clear, copy_*}_user</title>
<updated>2018-04-20T06:20:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T11:11:05+00:00</published>
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From: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

commit f71c2ffcb20dd8626880747557014bb9a61eb90e upstream.

Like we've done for get_user and put_user, ensure that user pointers
are masked before invoking the underlying __arch_{clear,copy_*}_user
operations.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[v4.9: fixup for v4.9-style uaccess primitives]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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From: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

commit f71c2ffcb20dd8626880747557014bb9a61eb90e upstream.

Like we've done for get_user and put_user, ensure that user pointers
are masked before invoking the underlying __arch_{clear,copy_*}_user
operations.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[v4.9: fixup for v4.9-style uaccess primitives]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [v4.9 backport]
Tested-by: Greg Hackmann &lt;ghackmann@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2016-10-15T00:42:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-15T00:42:44+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>arm64: don't zero in __copy_from_user{,_inatomic}</title>
<updated>2016-09-15T23:51:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-10T20:50:00+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: use alternative auto-nop</title>
<updated>2016-09-12T09:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-07T10:07:09+00:00</published>
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Make use of the new alternative_if and alternative_else_nop_endif and
get rid of our homebew NOP sleds, making the code simpler to read.

Note that for cpu_do_switch_mm the ret has been moved out of the
alternative sequence, and in the default case there will be three
additional NOPs executed.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Make use of the new alternative_if and alternative_else_nop_endif and
get rid of our homebew NOP sleds, making the code simpler to read.

Note that for cpu_do_switch_mm the ret has been moved out of the
alternative sequence, and in the default case there will be three
additional NOPs executed.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: kasan: instrument user memory access API</title>
<updated>2016-06-21T14:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.shi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-08T21:40:56+00:00</published>
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The upstream commit 1771c6e1a567ea0ba2cccc0a4ffe68a1419fd8ef
("x86/kasan: instrument user memory access API") added KASAN instrument to
x86 user memory access API, so added such instrument to ARM64 too.

Define __copy_to/from_user in C in order to add kasan_check_read/write call,
rename assembly implementation to __arch_copy_to/from_user.

Tested by test_kasan module.

Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The upstream commit 1771c6e1a567ea0ba2cccc0a4ffe68a1419fd8ef
("x86/kasan: instrument user memory access API") added KASAN instrument to
x86 user memory access API, so added such instrument to ARM64 too.

Define __copy_to/from_user in C in order to add kasan_check_read/write call,
rename assembly implementation to __arch_copy_to/from_user.

Tested by test_kasan module.

Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T03:03:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T03:03:47+00:00</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6.  There are some relatively
  intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel
  virtual memory layout and initial page table creation.

  Summary:

   - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block
     mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones.  The ARM architecture
     requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but
     that's not always possible on live page tables

   - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked
     to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom
     of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly)
     anywhere in physical RAM

   - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being
     randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is
     provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the
     arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming)

   - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR
     (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c
     but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge
     dependencies)

   - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this
     allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using
     LDTR/STTR instructions.  Such instructions, when run by the kernel,
     perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection.
     The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to
     privileged accesses via the UAO bit

   - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2)

   - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using
     run-time code patching)

   - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time

   - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent
     incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g.  weird
     big.LITTLE configurations)

   - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the
     sigcontext information (restored pstate information)

   - ACPI parking protocol implementation

   - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default

   - VDSO code marked as read-only

   - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support

   - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled

   - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC

   - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings

   - Code clean-ups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits)
  arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow
  arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow
  arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission
  arm64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment
  arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid
  arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default
  arm64: Rework valid_user_regs
  arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly
  arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion
  arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity
  arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order
  arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT
  arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR
  arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features
  arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot
  arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point
  arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility
  arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456
  arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6.  There are some relatively
  intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel
  virtual memory layout and initial page table creation.

  Summary:

   - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block
     mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones.  The ARM architecture
     requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but
     that's not always possible on live page tables

   - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked
     to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom
     of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly)
     anywhere in physical RAM

   - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being
     randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is
     provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the
     arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming)

   - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR
     (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c
     but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge
     dependencies)

   - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this
     allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using
     LDTR/STTR instructions.  Such instructions, when run by the kernel,
     perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection.
     The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to
     privileged accesses via the UAO bit

   - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2)

   - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using
     run-time code patching)

   - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time

   - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent
     incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g.  weird
     big.LITTLE configurations)

   - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the
     sigcontext information (restored pstate information)

   - ACPI parking protocol implementation

   - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default

   - VDSO code marked as read-only

   - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support

   - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled

   - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC

   - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings

   - Code clean-ups"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits)
  arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow
  arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow
  arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission
  arm64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment
  arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid
  arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default
  arm64: Rework valid_user_regs
  arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly
  arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion
  arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity
  arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order
  arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT
  arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR
  arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features
  arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot
  arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point
  arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility
  arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456
  arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Fix misspellings in comments.</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T18:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Buchbinder</name>
<email>adam.buchbinder@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-24T17:52:41+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T18:35:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-25T19:48:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5be8b70af1ca78cefb8b756d157532360a5fd663'/>
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The LSE atomics implementation uses runtime patching to patch in calls
to out of line non-LSE atomics implementations on cores that lack hardware
support for LSE. To avoid paying the overhead cost of a function call even
if no call ends up being made, the bl instruction is kept invisible to the
compiler, and the out of line implementations preserve all registers, not
just the ones that they are required to preserve as per the AAPCS64.

However, commit fd045f6cd98e ("arm64: add support for module PLTs") added
support for routing branch instructions via veneers if the branch target
offset exceeds the range of the ordinary relative branch instructions.
Since this deals with jump and call instructions that are exposed to ELF
relocations, the PLT code uses x16 to hold the address of the branch target
when it performs an indirect branch-to-register, something which is
explicitly allowed by the AAPCS64 (and ordinary compiler generated code
does not expect register x16 or x17 to retain their values across a bl
instruction).

Since the lse runtime patched bl instructions don't adhere to the AAPCS64,
they don't deal with this clobbering of registers x16 and x17. So add them
to the clobber list of the asm() statements that perform the call
instructions, and drop x16 and x17 from the list of registers that are
callee saved in the out of line non-LSE implementations.

In addition, since we have given these functions two scratch registers,
they no longer need to stack/unstack temp registers.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[will: factored clobber list into #define, updated Makefile comment]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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The LSE atomics implementation uses runtime patching to patch in calls
to out of line non-LSE atomics implementations on cores that lack hardware
support for LSE. To avoid paying the overhead cost of a function call even
if no call ends up being made, the bl instruction is kept invisible to the
compiler, and the out of line implementations preserve all registers, not
just the ones that they are required to preserve as per the AAPCS64.

However, commit fd045f6cd98e ("arm64: add support for module PLTs") added
support for routing branch instructions via veneers if the branch target
offset exceeds the range of the ordinary relative branch instructions.
Since this deals with jump and call instructions that are exposed to ELF
relocations, the PLT code uses x16 to hold the address of the branch target
when it performs an indirect branch-to-register, something which is
explicitly allowed by the AAPCS64 (and ordinary compiler generated code
does not expect register x16 or x17 to retain their values across a bl
instruction).

Since the lse runtime patched bl instructions don't adhere to the AAPCS64,
they don't deal with this clobbering of registers x16 and x17. So add them
to the clobber list of the asm() statements that perform the call
instructions, and drop x16 and x17 from the list of registers that are
callee saved in the out of line non-LSE implementations.

In addition, since we have given these functions two scratch registers,
they no longer need to stack/unstack temp registers.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
[will: factored clobber list into #define, updated Makefile comment]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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