[PATCH v2] arm64: mte: initialize RGSR_EL1.SEED in __cpu_setup

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Mon May 10 08:31:44 PDT 2021


On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:59:05AM -0700, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> A valid implementation choice for the ChooseRandomNonExcludedTag()
> pseudocode function used by IRG is to behave in the same way as with
> GCR_EL1.RRND=0. This would mean that RGSR_EL1.SEED is used as an LFSR
> which must have a non-zero value in order for IRG to properly produce
> pseudorandom numbers. However, RGSR_EL1 is reset to an UNKNOWN value
> on soft reset and thus may reset to 0. Therefore we must initialize
> RGSR_EL1.SEED to a non-zero value in order to ensure that IRG behaves
> as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc at google.com>
> Fixes: 3b714d24ef17 ("arm64: mte: CPU feature detection and initial sysreg configuration")
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 5.10
> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I2b089b6c7d6f17ee37e2f0db7df5ad5bcc04526c

FWIW:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>

Mark.

> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/proc.S | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> index 0a48191534ff..97d7bcd8d4f2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc.S
> @@ -447,6 +447,18 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__cpu_setup)
>  	mov	x10, #(SYS_GCR_EL1_RRND | SYS_GCR_EL1_EXCL_MASK)
>  	msr_s	SYS_GCR_EL1, x10
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If GCR_EL1.RRND=1 is implemented the same way as RRND=0, then
> +	 * RGSR_EL1.SEED must be non-zero for IRG to produce
> +	 * pseudorandom numbers. As RGSR_EL1 is UNKNOWN out of reset, we
> +	 * must initialize it.
> +	 */
> +	mrs	x10, CNTVCT_EL0
> +	ands	x10, x10, #SYS_RGSR_EL1_SEED_MASK
> +	csinc	x10, x10, xzr, ne
> +	lsl	x10, x10, #SYS_RGSR_EL1_SEED_SHIFT
> +	msr_s	SYS_RGSR_EL1, x10
> +
>  	/* clear any pending tag check faults in TFSR*_EL1 */
>  	msr_s	SYS_TFSR_EL1, xzr
>  	msr_s	SYS_TFSRE0_EL1, xzr
> -- 
> 2.31.1.607.g51e8a6a459-goog
> 



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