[PATCH v6 29/30] arm64: kpkeys: Enable kpkeys_hardened_pgtables support

Kevin Brodsky kevin.brodsky at arm.com
Fri Feb 27 09:55:17 PST 2026


The kpkeys_hardened_pgtables feature needs to be initialised in two
stages:

1. As soon as the buddy allocator becomes available. The canonical
   place to handle this is mem_init().

2. As soon as the linear map can be split. With BBML2-noabort, this
   requires CPU detection to be completed on all CPUs.
   The earliest point is therefore after setup_system_features() has
   been called.

With that done, all the bits are in place and we can advertise
support for kpkeys_hardened_pgtables by selecting
ARCH_HAS_KPKEYS_HARDENED_PGTABLES if ARM64_POE is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig      | 1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 2 ++
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c     | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 732d4dbbab20..2faf082cc1d0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -2165,6 +2165,7 @@ config ARM64_POE
 	select ARCH_USES_HIGH_VMA_FLAGS
 	select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS
 	select ARCH_HAS_KPKEYS
+	select ARCH_HAS_KPKEYS_HARDENED_PGTABLES
 	help
 	  The Permission Overlay Extension is used to implement Memory
 	  Protection Keys. Memory Protection Keys provides a mechanism for
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
index 1aa324104afb..b2efff7a82ef 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include <linux/kgdb.h>
 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
+#include <linux/kpkeys.h>
 
 #include <asm/alternative.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
@@ -441,6 +442,7 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	hyp_mode_check();
 	setup_system_features();
 	setup_user_features();
+	kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_init_late();
 	mark_linear_text_alias_ro();
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 1e2cf0166c1d..1a96c186c4a3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -2273,3 +2273,8 @@ int arch_set_user_pkey_access(struct task_struct *tsk, int pkey, unsigned long i
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif
+
+void __init mem_init(void)
+{
+	kpkeys_hardened_pgtables_init();
+}
-- 
2.51.2




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