[PATCH] arm64/sve: Report SVE to userspace via CPUID only if supported

Dave Martin Dave.Martin at arm.com
Thu Dec 14 06:01:34 PST 2017


Currently, the SVE field in ID_AA64PFR0_EL1 is visible
unconditionally to userspace via the CPU ID register emulation,
irrespective of the kernel config.  This means that if a kernel
configured with CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=n is run on SVE-capable hardware,
userspace will see SVE reported as present in the ID regs even
though the kernel forbids execution of SVE instructions.

This patch makes the exposure of the SVE field in ID_AA64PFR0_EL1
conditional on CONFIG_ARM64_SVE=y.

Since future architecture features are likely to encounter a
similar requirement, this patch adds a suitable helper macros for
use when declaring config-conditional ID register fields.

Fixes: 43994d824e84 ("arm64/sve: Detect SVE and activate runtime support")
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin at arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
---

This patch is proposed as a fix for v4.15, since we don't want to create
unintentional ABI by exposing the wrong thing to userspace in a full
kernel release.

 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c      | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
index ac67cfc..060e3a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ enum ftr_type {
 #define FTR_VISIBLE	true	/* Feature visible to the user space */
 #define FTR_HIDDEN	false	/* Feature is hidden from the user */
 
+#define FTR_VISIBLE_IF_IS_ENABLED(config)		\
+	(IS_ENABLED(config) ? FTR_VISIBLE : FTR_HIDDEN)
+
 struct arm64_ftr_bits {
 	bool		sign;	/* Value is signed ? */
 	bool		visible;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index c5ba009..a73a592 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64isar1[] = {
 };
 
 static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64pfr0[] = {
-	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE_IF_IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_SVE),
+				   FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR0_GIC_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR0_ASIMD_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR0_ASIMD_NI),
 	S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR0_FP_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64PFR0_FP_NI),
-- 
2.1.4




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