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>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index de8dee60fd82..c2bd79a02a6c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -596,6 +596,20 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
 	default "14" if (ARM64_64K_PAGES && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
 	default "11"
 
+config ARM64_PAN
+	bool "Enable support for Privileged Access Never (PAN)"
+	default y
+	help
+	 Privileged Access Never (PAN; part of the ARMv8.1 Extensions)
+	 prevents the kernel or hypervisor from accessing user-space (EL0)
+	 memory directly.
+
+	 Choosing this option will cause any unprotected (not using
+	 copy_to_user et al) memory access to fail with a permission fault.
+
+	 The feature is detected at runtime, and will remain as a 'nop'
+	 instruction if the cpu does not implement the feature.
+
 menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
 	bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
 	depends on COMPAT