[PATCHv2 05/12] arm64: Don't trap host pointer auth use to EL2

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Nov 27 08:37:59 PST 2017


To allow EL0 (and/or EL1) to use pointer authentication functionality,
we must ensure that pointer authentication instructions and accesses to
pointer authentication keys are not trapped to EL2 (where we will not be
able to handle them).

This patch ensures that HCR_EL2 is configured appropriately when the
kernel is booted at EL2. For non-VHE kernels we set HCR_EL2.{API,APK},
ensuring that EL1 can access keys and permit EL0 use of instructions.
For VHE kernels, EL2 access is controlled by EL3, and we need not set
anything.

This does not enable support for KVM guests, since KVM manages HCR_EL2
itself.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall at linaro.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/head.S         | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
index 7f069ff37f06..62854d5d1d3b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 #include <asm/types.h>
 
 /* Hyp Configuration Register (HCR) bits */
+#define HCR_API		(UL(1) << 41)
+#define HCR_APK		(UL(1) << 40)
 #define HCR_E2H		(UL(1) << 34)
 #define HCR_ID		(UL(1) << 33)
 #define HCR_CD		(UL(1) << 32)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
index 67e86a0f57ac..06a96e9af26b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
@@ -415,10 +415,25 @@ CPU_LE(	bic	x0, x0, #(1 << 25)	)	// Clear the EE bit for EL2
 
 	/* Hyp configuration. */
 	mov	x0, #HCR_RW			// 64-bit EL1
-	cbz	x2, set_hcr
+	cbz	x2, 1f
 	orr	x0, x0, #HCR_TGE		// Enable Host Extensions
 	orr	x0, x0, #HCR_E2H
-set_hcr:
+1:
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_POINTER_AUTHENTICATION
+	/*
+	 * Disable pointer authentication traps to EL2. The HCR_EL2.{APK,API}
+	 * bits exist iff at least one authentication mechanism is implemented.
+	 */
+	mrs	x1, id_aa64isar1_el1
+	mov_q	x3, ((0xf << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPI_SHIFT) | \
+		     (0xf << ID_AA64ISAR1_GPA_SHIFT) | \
+		     (0xf << ID_AA64ISAR1_API_SHIFT) | \
+		     (0xf << ID_AA64ISAR1_APA_SHIFT))
+	and	x1, x1, x3
+	cbz	x1, 1f
+	orr	x0, x0, #(HCR_APK | HCR_API)
+1:
+#endif
 	msr	hcr_el2, x0
 	isb
 
-- 
2.11.0




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list