[PATCH v3 4/4] ARM: Implement PAN for LPAE by TTBR0 page table walks disablement

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue May 14 13:33:08 PDT 2024


On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 8:26 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/24 10:03, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

> > I would imagine that the problem is cpu_set_ttbcr(). Please try adding
> > a "memory" clobber to the asm() instruction in there.
> >
>
> I can confirm that with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y and the hunk below:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> index 9b3105a2a5e0..1087bd2af433 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/proc-fns.h
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static inline unsigned int cpu_get_ttbcr(void)
>
>   static inline void cpu_set_ttbcr(unsigned int ttbcr)
>   {
> -       asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c2, c0, 2" : : "r" (ttbcr));
> +       asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c2, c0, 2" : : "r" (ttbcr) : "memory");
>   }
>
>   #else  /*!CONFIG_MMU */
>
> my Raspberry Pi 4B in AArch32 mode boots and runs user-space properly.
>
> Thanks a lot Russell!

Second that, very nicely pinpointed Russell!

Florian, do you want to send a patch or should I?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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