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authorJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>2015-07-22 19:05:54 +0100
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-07-27 11:08:41 +0100
commit338d4f49d6f7114a017d294ccf7374df4f998edc (patch)
treeaf0b5cedc6e042623346d4e82be24eda190626a1 /arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
parent9ded63aaf83eba76e1a54ac02581c2badc497f1a (diff)
arm64: kernel: Add support for Privileged Access Never
'Privileged Access Never' is a new arm8.1 feature which prevents privileged code from accessing any virtual address where read or write access is also permitted at EL0. This patch enables the PAN feature on all CPUs, and modifies {get,put}_user helpers temporarily to permit access. This will catch kernel bugs where user memory is accessed directly. 'Unprivileged loads and stores' using ldtrb et al are unaffected by PAN. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [will: use ALTERNATIVE in asm and tidy up pan_enable check] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
index e4c893e54f01..98f32355dc97 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -186,4 +186,6 @@ static inline void spin_lock_prefetch(const void *x)
#endif
+void cpu_enable_pan(void);
+
#endif /* __ASM_PROCESSOR_H */