From 57f4959bad0a154aeca125b7d38d1d9471a12422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Morse Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:58:48 +0000 Subject: arm64: kernel: Add support for User Access Override 'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in the normal way. This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr* instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory. This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the page tables, instead of testing addr [catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index fa51ff0470c1..3d9cab156740 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -756,6 +756,27 @@ config ARM64_LSE_ATOMICS endmenu +config ARM64_UAO + bool "Enable support for User Access Override (UAO)" + default y + help + User Access Override (UAO; part of the ARMv8.2 Extensions) + causes the 'unprivileged' variant of the load/store instructions to + be overriden to be privileged. + + This option changes get_user() and friends to use the 'unprivileged' + variant of the load/store instructions. This ensures that user-space + really did have access to the supplied memory. When addr_limit is + set to kernel memory the UAO bit will be set, allowing privileged + access to kernel memory. + + Choosing this option will cause copy_to_user() et al to use user-space + memory permissions. + + The feature is detected at runtime, the kernel will use the + regular load/store instructions if the cpu does not implement the + feature. + endmenu menu "Boot options" -- cgit v1.2.3