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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-02-21 16:03:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-02-21 16:03:36 -0800 |
| commit | 63f01d852c75366fb4d15ce217d12c48b69a4bcc (patch) | |
| tree | 8d47f51afb6763b923fc3082f6a259456a2c77f7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 2865936259e27629fac422bc80c9b55ca1f108a5 (diff) | |
| parent | dcde237319e626d1ec3c9d8b7613032f0fd4663a (diff) | |
Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
"It's all straightforward apart from the changes to mmap()/mremap() in
relation to their handling of address arguments from userspace with
non-zero tag bits in the upper byte.
The change to brk() is necessary to fix a nasty user-visible
regression in malloc(), but we tightened up mmap() and mremap() at the
same time because they also allow the user to create virtual aliases
by accident. It's much less likely than brk() to matter in practice,
but enforcing the principle of "don't permit the creation of mappings
using tagged addresses" leads to a straightforward ABI without having
to worry about the "but what if a crazy program did foo?" aspect of
things.
Summary:
- Fix regression in malloc() caused by ignored address tags in brk()
- Add missing brackets around argument to untagged_addr() macro
- Fix clang build when using binutils assembler
- Fix silly typo in virtual memory map documentation"
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
mm: Avoid creating virtual address aliases in brk()/mmap()/mremap()
docs: arm64: fix trivial spelling enought to enough in memory.rst
arm64: memory: Add missing brackets to untagged_addr() macro
arm64: lse: Fix LSE atomics with LLVM
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/memory.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst | 11 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst index 02e02175e6f5..cf03b3290800 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/memory.rst @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ this logic. As a single binary will need to support both 48-bit and 52-bit VA spaces, the VMEMMAP must be sized large enough for 52-bit VAs and -also must be sized large enought to accommodate a fixed PAGE_OFFSET. +also must be sized large enough to accommodate a fixed PAGE_OFFSET. Most code in the kernel should not need to consider the VA_BITS, for code that does need to know the VA size the variables are diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst index d4a85d535bf9..4a9d9c794ee5 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst @@ -44,8 +44,15 @@ The AArch64 Tagged Address ABI has two stages of relaxation depending how the user addresses are used by the kernel: 1. User addresses not accessed by the kernel but used for address space - management (e.g. ``mmap()``, ``mprotect()``, ``madvise()``). The use - of valid tagged pointers in this context is always allowed. + management (e.g. ``mprotect()``, ``madvise()``). The use of valid + tagged pointers in this context is allowed with the exception of + ``brk()``, ``mmap()`` and the ``new_address`` argument to + ``mremap()`` as these have the potential to alias with existing + user addresses. + + NOTE: This behaviour changed in v5.6 and so some earlier kernels may + incorrectly accept valid tagged pointers for the ``brk()``, + ``mmap()`` and ``mremap()`` system calls. 2. User addresses accessed by the kernel (e.g. ``write()``). This ABI relaxation is disabled by default and the application thread needs to |