[PATCH 3/4] arm64: entry: improve data abort handling of tagged pointers

Kristina Martsenko kristina.martsenko at arm.com
Thu Apr 20 14:17:13 EDT 2017


When handling a data abort from EL0, we currently zero the top byte of
the faulting address, as we assume the address is a TTBR0 address, which
may contain a non-zero address tag. However, the address may be a TTBR1
address, in which case we should not zero the top byte. This patch fixes
that. The effect is that the full TTBR1 address is passed to the task's
signal handler (or printed out in the kernel log).

When handling a data abort from EL1, we leave the faulting address
intact, as we assume it's either a TTBR1 address or a TTBR0 address with
tag 0x00. This is true as far as I'm aware, we don't seem to access a
tagged TTBR0 address anywhere in the kernel. Regardless, it's easy to
forget about address tags, and code added in the future may not always
remember to remove tags from addresses before accessing them. So add tag
handling to the EL1 data abort handler as well. This also makes it
consistent with the EL0 data abort handler.

Fixes: d50240a5f6ce ("arm64: mm: permit use of tagged pointers at EL0")
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h | 9 +++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S            | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
index df411f3e083c..790ce8e64f8d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
@@ -62,4 +62,13 @@ alternative_if ARM64_ALT_PAN_NOT_UAO
 alternative_else_nop_endif
 	.endm
 
+/*
+ * Remove the address tag from a virtual address, if present.
+ */
+	.macro	clear_address_tag, addr, tmp
+	bic	\tmp, \addr, #(0xff << 56)
+	tst	\addr, #(1 << 55)
+	csel	\addr, \tmp, \addr, eq
+	.endm
+
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 43512d4d7df2..2f7ec392ef50 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ el1_da:
 	tbnz	x23, #7, 1f			// PSR_I_BIT
 	enable_irq
 1:
+	clear_address_tag x0, x3
 	mov	x2, sp				// struct pt_regs
 	bl	do_mem_abort
 
@@ -594,7 +595,8 @@ el0_da:
 	// enable interrupts before calling the main handler
 	enable_dbg_and_irq
 	ct_user_exit
-	bic	x0, x26, #(0xff << 56)
+	mov	x0, x26
+	clear_address_tag x0, x3
 	mov	x1, x25
 	mov	x2, sp
 	bl	do_mem_abort
-- 
2.1.4




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