[PATCH v5 19/26] powerpc/book3s64/kuap: Move KUAP related function outside radix
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jul 7 00:41:45 AEST 2020
On 7/6/20 6:11 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> writes:
>> The next set of patches adds support for kuap with hash translation.
>
> That's no longer true of this series.
>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pkeys.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pkeys.c
>> index 0d72c0246052..e93b65a0e6e7 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pkeys.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/pkeys.c
>> @@ -199,6 +200,24 @@ void __init pkey_early_init_devtree(void)
>> return;
>> }
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_KUAP
>> +void __init setup_kuap(bool disabled)
>> +{
>> + if (disabled || !early_radix_enabled())
>> + return;
>> +
>> + if (smp_processor_id() == boot_cpuid) {
>> + pr_info("Activating Kernel Userspace Access Prevention\n");
>> + cur_cpu_spec->mmu_features |= MMU_FTR_RADIX_KUAP;
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* Make sure userspace can't change the AMR */
>> + mtspr(SPRN_UAMOR, 0);
>> + mtspr(SPRN_AMR, AMR_KUAP_BLOCKED);
>> + isync();
>> +}
>> +#endif
>
> This makes this code depend on CONFIG_PPC_MEM_KEYS=y, which it didn't
> used to.
>
> That risks breaking people's existing .configs, if they have
> PPC_MEM_KEYS=n they will now lose KUAP.
>
> And I'm not convinced the two features should be tied together, at least
> at the user-visible Kconfig level.
>
That simplifies the addition of hash kuap a lot. Especially in the
exception entry and return paths. I did try to consider them as
independent options. But then the feature fixup in asm code gets
unnecessarily complicated. Also the UAMOR handling also get complicated.
-aneesh
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