[PATCH v2 1/6] arm64/mm: Reduce PA space to 48 bits when LPA2 is not enabled

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 16:03, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+git at google.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
>
> Currently, LPA2 kernel support implies support for up to 52 bits of
> physical addressing, and this is reflected in global definitions such as
> PHYS_MASK_SHIFT and MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
>
> This is potentially problematic, given that LPA2 hardware support is
> modeled as a CPU feature which can be overridden, and with LPA2 hardware
> support turned off, attempting to map physical regions with address bits
> [51:48] set (which may exist on LPA2 capable systems booting with
> arm64.nolva) will result in corrupted mappings with a truncated output
> address and bogus shareability attributes.
>
> This means that the accepted physical address range in the mapping
> routines should be at most 48 bits wide when LPA2 support is configured
> but not enabled at runtime.
>
> Fixes: 352b0395b505 ("arm64: Enable 52-bit virtual addressing for 4k and 16k granule configs")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 6 ------
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h  | 7 +++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h     | 4 +++-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> index c78a988cca93..a9136cc551cc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> @@ -222,12 +222,6 @@
>   */
>  #define S1_TABLE_AP            (_AT(pmdval_t, 3) << 61)
>
> -/*
> - * Highest possible physical address supported.
> - */
> -#define PHYS_MASK_SHIFT                (CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS)
> -#define PHYS_MASK              ((UL(1) << PHYS_MASK_SHIFT) - 1)
> -
>  #define TTBR_CNP_BIT           (UL(1) << 0)
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> index 9f9cf13bbd95..a95f1f77bb39 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-prot.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ extern unsigned long prot_ns_shared;
>  #define lpa2_is_enabled()      false
>  #define PTE_MAYBE_SHARED       PTE_SHARED
>  #define PMD_MAYBE_SHARED       PMD_SECT_S
> +#define PHYS_MASK_SHIFT                (CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS)
>  #else
>  static inline bool __pure lpa2_is_enabled(void)
>  {
> @@ -89,8 +90,14 @@ static inline bool __pure lpa2_is_enabled(void)
>
>  #define PTE_MAYBE_SHARED       (lpa2_is_enabled() ? 0 : PTE_SHARED)
>  #define PMD_MAYBE_SHARED       (lpa2_is_enabled() ? 0 : PMD_SECT_S)
> +#define PHYS_MASK_SHIFT                (lpa2_is_enabled() ? CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS : 48)
>  #endif
>
> +/*
> + * Highest possible physical address supported.
> + */
> +#define PHYS_MASK              ((UL(1) << PHYS_MASK_SHIFT) - 1)
> +
>  /*
>   * If we have userspace only BTI we don't want to mark kernel pages
>   * guarded even if the system does support BTI.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h
> index 8a8acc220371..035e0ca74e88 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
>  #ifndef __ASM_SPARSEMEM_H
>  #define __ASM_SPARSEMEM_H
>
> -#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS       CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS
> +#include <asm/pgtable-prot.h>
> +
> +#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS       PHYS_MASK_SHIFT
>

This needs

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@

 #include <asm/pgtable-prot.h>

-#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS       PHYS_MASK_SHIFT
+#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS               PHYS_MASK_SHIFT
+#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS      (52)

 /*
  * Section size must be at least 512MB for 64K base

applied on top to make the ZSMALLOC code happy.