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authorJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>2015-07-22 19:05:54 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-07-27 11:08:41 +0100
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arm64: kernel: Add support for Privileged Access Never
'Privileged Access Never' is a new arm8.1 feature which prevents privileged code from accessing any virtual address where read or write access is also permitted at EL0. This patch enables the PAN feature on all CPUs, and modifies {get,put}_user helpers temporarily to permit access. This will catch kernel bugs where user memory is accessed directly. 'Unprivileged loads and stores' using ldtrb et al are unaffected by PAN. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [will: use ALTERNATIVE in asm and tidy up pan_enable check] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
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@@ -596,6 +596,20 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
default "14" if (ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
default "11"
+config ARM64_PAN
+ bool "Enable support for Privileged Access Never (PAN)"
+ default y
+ help
+ Privileged Access Never (PAN; part of the ARMv8.1 Extensions)
+ prevents the kernel or hypervisor from accessing user-space (EL0)
+ memory directly.
+
+ Choosing this option will cause any unprotected (not using
+ copy_to_user et al) memory access to fail with a permission fault.
+
+ The feature is detected at runtime, and will remain as a 'nop'
+ instruction if the cpu does not implement the feature.
+
menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
depends on COMPAT
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