[PATCHv3 17/17] arm64: uaccess: remove vestigal UAO support

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon Oct 26 09:31:56 EDT 2020


Now that arm64 no longer uses UAO, remove the vestigal feature detection
code and Kconfig text.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig               | 21 ---------------------
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h |  1 -
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c   | 11 -----------
 3 files changed, 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index e79dc48bcd650..ee0b58011802c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -1404,27 +1404,6 @@ 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/cpucaps.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
index e3a7b6fe98d23..67e1510ef4db6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpucaps.h
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_23154		6
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_834220			7
 #define ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH		8
-#define ARM64_HAS_UAO				9
 #define ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN		11
 #define ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456		12
 #define ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL0			13
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 5d7032625ff2b..3a9e1d672cb0b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1764,17 +1764,6 @@ 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",
-- 
2.11.0




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