[PATCH 00/13] arm64: remove set_fs() and friends

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 05:07:09PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series removes set_fs() from arm64, building atop the core rework
> done by Christophe. The series can be found in my arm64/set_fs-removal
> branch [2].
> 
> The bulk of the rework is to address the way we manipulate PAN and UAO,
> which is largely rendered redundant.
> 
> The kernel maccess routines (__{get,put}_kernel_nofault) are trivial
> wrappers which share code with the uaccess routines, so I expect these
> should just work, but they'll need testing in-context, especially where
> they're wrapped by the gerneric copy routines.
> 
> So far this has seen some very basic boot testing. I intend to throw
> Syzkaller and LTP at this soon.

I'm not a an arm64 experts, but this looks reasonable to me.

Also can't we remove all the remaining UAO handling as in the patch
below or did I totally misunderstood how uaccess works for arm64?

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 6d232837cbeee8..dd3c8f8a34dae2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1434,27 +1434,6 @@ endmenu
 
 menu "ARMv8.2 architectural features"
 
-config ARM64_UAO
-	bool "Enable support for User Access Override (UAO)"
-	default y
-	help
-	  User Access Override (UAO; part of the ARMv8.2 Extensions)
-	  causes the 'unprivileged' variant of the load/store instructions to
-	  be overridden to be privileged.
-
-	  This option changes get_user() and friends to use the 'unprivileged'
-	  variant of the load/store instructions. This ensures that user-space
-	  really did have access to the supplied memory. When addr_limit is
-	  set to kernel memory the UAO bit will be set, allowing privileged
-	  access to kernel memory.
-
-	  Choosing this option will cause copy_to_user() et al to use user-space
-	  memory permissions.
-
-	  The feature is detected at runtime, the kernel will use the
-	  regular load/store instructions if the cpu does not implement the
-	  feature.
-
 config ARM64_PMEM
 	bool "Enable support for persistent memory"
 	select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
index ef2d5a90e1815f..1c16e43f035a7a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 static inline void init_hw_uaccess_state(void)
 {
 	asm(ALTERNATIVE("nop", SET_PSTATE_PAN(1), ARM64_HAS_PAN));
-	asm(ALTERNATIVE("nop", SET_PSTATE_UAO(0), ARM64_HAS_UAO));
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 8bc2cb5547346f..c460cd15dc49b3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1760,17 +1760,6 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm64_features[] = {
 		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_WEAK_LOCAL_CPU_FEATURE,
 		.matches = has_no_hw_prefetch,
 	},
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_UAO
-	{
-		.desc = "User Access Override",
-		.capability = ARM64_HAS_UAO,
-		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
-		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
-		.sys_reg = SYS_ID_AA64MMFR2_EL1,
-		.field_pos = ID_AA64MMFR2_UAO_SHIFT,
-		.min_field_value = 1,
-	},
-#endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_UAO */
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
 	{
 		.desc = "Virtualization Host Extensions",
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index 6ec12f4cb546f4..f223d27d991b3c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static void print_pstate(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		const char *btype_str = btypes[(pstate & PSR_BTYPE_MASK) >>
 					       PSR_BTYPE_SHIFT];
 
-		printk("pstate: %08llx (%c%c%c%c %c%c%c%c %cPAN %cUAO BTYPE=%s)\n",
+		printk("pstate: %08llx (%c%c%c%c %c%c%c%c %cPAN BTYPE=%s)\n",
 			pstate,
 			pstate & PSR_N_BIT ? 'N' : 'n',
 			pstate & PSR_Z_BIT ? 'Z' : 'z',
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ static void print_pstate(struct pt_regs *regs)
 			pstate & PSR_I_BIT ? 'I' : 'i',
 			pstate & PSR_F_BIT ? 'F' : 'f',
 			pstate & PSR_PAN_BIT ? '+' : '-',
-			pstate & PSR_UAO_BIT ? '+' : '-',
 			btype_str);
 	}
 }
@@ -417,10 +416,6 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long stack_start,
 	} else {
 		memset(childregs, 0, sizeof(struct pt_regs));
 		childregs->pstate = PSR_MODE_EL1h;
-		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_UAO) &&
-		    cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_HAS_UAO))
-			childregs->pstate |= PSR_UAO_BIT;
-
 		if (arm64_get_ssbd_state() == ARM64_SSBD_FORCE_DISABLE)
 			set_ssbs_bit(childregs);