[PATCH] arm64/sve: Report SVE to userspace via CPUID only if supported
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Dec 14 06:06:21 PST 2017
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 02:01:34PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> 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.
Makes sense to me; I can use this for pointer authentication 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>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Mark.
> ---
>
> 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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