[kernel-hardening] [PATCH v3 0/7] arm64: Privileged Access Never using TTBR0_EL1 switching

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Sep 15 02:52:32 PDT 2016


On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 02:54:25PM -0600, David Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 06:46:30PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> >This is the third version of the arm64 PAN emulation using TTBR0_EL1
> >switching. The series has not yet included the alternative nop patches
> >from Mark Rutland, nor the empty_zero_page from Ard B. This will be done
> >in a subsequent version once 4.9-rc1 is out (which will include Mark's
> >alternative nop patches).
> 
> I've tested these with a bunch of reboots in both qemu and HiKey and
> have not seen the efi failure.

Thanks for testing. I'll defer adding your tested-by until I post the
hopefully final version after 4.9-rc1 (it's pretty late to merge these
patches now, I still need to do more testing on models with PAN or
PAN+UAO present).

-- 
Catalin



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