ARM: 7384/1: ThumbEE: Disable userspace TEEHBR access for !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE
authorJonathan Austin <Jonathan.Austin@arm.com>
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:45:25 +0000 (17:45 +0100)
committerLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:15:06 +0000 (19:15 +0100)
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987337

commit 078c04545ba56da21567728a909a496df5ff730d upstream.

Currently when ThumbEE is not enabled (!CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE) the ThumbEE
register states are not saved/restored at context switch. The default state
of the ThumbEE Ctrl register (TEECR) allows userspace accesses to the
ThumbEE Base Handler register (TEEHBR). This can cause unexpected behaviour
when people use ThumbEE on !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE kernels, as well as allowing
covert communication - eg between userspace tasks running inside chroot
jails.

This patch sets up TEECR in order to prevent user-space access to TEEHBR
when !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE. In this case, tasks are sent SIGILL if they try to
access TEEHBR.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>

arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S

index 0c2ef83..b9c68b4 100644 (file)
@@ -384,6 +384,18 @@ __v7_setup:
        mcr     p15, 0, r5, c10, c2, 0          @ write PRRR
        mcr     p15, 0, r6, c10, c2, 1          @ write NMRR
 #endif
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE
+       mrc     p15, 0, r0, c0, c1, 0           @ read ID_PFR0 for ThumbEE
+       and     r0, r0, #(0xf << 12)            @ ThumbEE enabled field
+       teq     r0, #(1 << 12)                  @ check if ThumbEE is present
+       bne     1f
+       mov     r5, #0
+       mcr     p14, 6, r5, c1, c0, 0           @ Initialize TEEHBR to 0
+       mrc     p14, 6, r0, c0, c0, 0           @ load TEECR
+       orr     r0, r0, #1                      @ set the 1st bit in order to
+       mcr     p14, 6, r0, c0, c0, 0           @ stop userspace TEEHBR access
+1:
+#endif
        adr     r5, v7_crval
        ldmia   r5, {r5, r6}
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8