[PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: vhe: Verify CPU Exception Levels

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Apr 13 06:41:33 PDT 2016


With a VHE capable CPU, kernel can run at EL2 and is a decided at early
boot. If some of the CPUs didn't start it EL2 or doesn't have VHE, we
could have CPUs running at different exception levels, all in the same
kernel! This patch adds an early check for the secondary CPUs to detect
such situations.

For each non-boot CPU add a sanity check to make sure we don't have
different run levels w.r.t the boot CPU. We save the information on
whether the boot CPU is running in hyp mode or not and ensure the
remaining CPUs match it.

Applies on 4.6-rc3.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>

---
Changes since v1
  - Move is_boot_cpu_in_hyp_mode() to smp.c
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h  |    6 ++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c |    1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c        |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
index 9f22dd6..a5c2b48 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/virt.h
@@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ static inline bool is_kernel_in_hyp_mode(void)
 	return el == CurrentEL_EL2;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
+extern void verify_cpu_run_el(void);
+#else
+static inline void verify_cpu_run_el(void) {}
+#endif
+
 /* The section containing the hypervisor text */
 extern char __hyp_text_start[];
 extern char __hyp_text_end[];
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 943f514..91088de 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -908,6 +908,7 @@ static u64 __raw_read_system_reg(u32 sys_id)
  */
 static void check_early_cpu_features(void)
 {
+	verify_cpu_run_el();
 	verify_cpu_asid_bits();
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index b2d5f4e..e97af155 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -75,6 +75,43 @@ enum ipi_msg_type {
 	IPI_WAKEUP
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
+
+/* Whether the boot CPU is running in HYP mode or not*/
+bool boot_cpu_hyp_mode;
+
+static inline void save_boot_cpu_run_el(void)
+{
+	boot_cpu_hyp_mode = is_kernel_in_hyp_mode();
+}
+
+static inline bool is_boot_cpu_in_hyp_mode(void)
+{
+	return boot_cpu_hyp_mode;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Verify that a secondary CPU is running the kernel at the same
+ * EL as that of the boot CPU.
+ */
+void verify_cpu_run_el(void)
+{
+	bool in_el2 = is_kernel_in_hyp_mode();
+	bool boot_cpu_el2 = is_boot_cpu_in_hyp_mode();
+
+	if (in_el2 ^ boot_cpu_el2) {
+		pr_crit("CPU%d: mismatched Exception Level(EL%d) with boot CPU(EL%d)\n",
+					smp_processor_id(),
+					in_el2 ? 2 : 1,
+					boot_cpu_el2 ? 2 : 1);
+		cpu_panic_kernel();
+	}
+}
+
+#else
+static inline void save_boot_cpu_run_el(void) {}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 static int op_cpu_kill(unsigned int cpu);
 #else
@@ -401,6 +438,7 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
 void __init smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
 {
 	cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu();
+	save_boot_cpu_run_el();
 	set_my_cpu_offset(per_cpu_offset(smp_processor_id()));
 }
 
-- 
1.7.9.5




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