This patch implements the switches for KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_DIST_REGS
and KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CPU_REGS API which allows the userspace to
access VGIC registers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
This patch implements the KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_ADDR group which
enables to set the base address of GIC regions as seen by the guest.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
kvm_vgic_addr is used by the userspace to set the base address of
the following register regions, as seen by the guest:
- distributor(v2 and v3),
- re-distributors (v3),
- CPU interface (v2).
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
This patch implements the KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_CTRL group API
featuring KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_CTRL_INIT attribute. The vgic_init
function is not yet implemented though.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
This patch implements the KVM_DEV_ARM_VGIC_GRP_NR_IRQS group. This
modality is supported by both VGIC V2 and V3 KVM device as will be
other groups, hence the introduction of common helpers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
This patch introduces the skeleton for the KVM device operations
associated to KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V2 and KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3.
At that stage kvm_vgic_create is stubbed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
In contrast to GICv2 SGIs in a GICv3 implementation are not triggered
by a MMIO write, but with a system register write. KVM knows about
that register already, we just need to implement the handler and wire
it up to the core KVM/ARM code.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Since GICv3 supports much more than the 8 CPUs the GICv2 ITARGETSR
register can handle, the new IROUTER register covers the whole range
of possible target (V)CPUs by using the same MPIDR that the cores
report themselves.
In addition to translating this MPIDR into a vcpu pointer we store
the originally written value as well. The architecture allows to
write any values into the register, which must be read back as written.
Since we don't support affinity level 3, we don't need to take care
about the upper word of this 64-bit register, which simplifies the
handling a bit.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
We implement the only one ID register that is required by the
architecture, also this is the one that Linux actually checks.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The redistributor TYPER tells the OS about the associated MPIDR,
also the LAST bit is crucial to determine the number of redistributors.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
As in the GICv2 emulation we handle those three registers in one
function.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Create a new file called vgic-mmio-v3.c and describe the GICv3
distributor and redistributor registers there.
This adds a special macro to deal with the split of SGI/PPI in the
redistributor and SPIs in the distributor, which allows us to reuse
the existing GICv2 handlers for those registers which are compatible.
Also we provide a function to deal with the registration of the two
separate redistributor frames per VCPU.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
As this register is v2 specific, its implementation lives entirely
in vgic-mmio-v2.c.
This register allows setting the source mask of an IPI.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Triggering an IPI via this register is v2 specific, so the
implementation lives entirely in vgic-mmio-v2.c.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The target register handlers are v2 emulation specific, so their
implementation lives entirely in vgic-mmio-v2.c.
We copy the old VGIC behaviour of assigning an IRQ to the first VCPU
set in the target mask instead of making it possibly pending on
multiple VCPUs.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The config register handlers are shared between the v2 and v3
emulation, so their implementation goes into vgic-mmio.c, to be
easily referenced from the v3 emulation as well later.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
The priority register handlers are shared between the v2 and v3
emulation, so their implementation goes into vgic-mmio.c, to be
easily referenced from the v3 emulation as well later.
There is a corner case when we change the priority of a pending
interrupt which we don't handle at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The active register handlers are shared between the v2 and v3
emulation, so their implementation goes into vgic-mmio.c, to be
easily referenced from the v3 emulation as well later.
Since activation/deactivation of an interrupt may happen entirely
in the guest without it ever exiting, we need some extra logic to
properly track the active state.
For clearing the active state, we basically have to halt the guest to
make sure this is properly propagated into the respective VCPUs.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
The pending register handlers are shared between the v2 and v3
emulation, so their implementation goes into vgic-mmio.c, to be easily
referenced from the v3 emulation as well later.
For level triggered interrupts the real line level is unaffected by
this write, so we keep this state separate and combine it with the
device's level to get the actual pending state.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
As the enable register handlers are shared between the v2 and v3
emulation, their implementation goes into vgic-mmio.c, to be easily
referenced from the v3 emulation as well later.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Those three registers are v2 emulation specific, so their implementation
lives entirely in vgic-mmio-v2.c. Also they are handled in one function,
as their implementation is pretty simple.
When the guest enables the distributor, we kick all VCPUs to get
potentially pending interrupts serviced.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Create vgic-mmio-v2.c to describe GICv2 emulation specific handlers
using the initializer macros provided by the VGIC MMIO framework.
Provide a function to register the GICv2 distributor registers to
the kvm_io_bus framework.
The actual handler functions are still stubs in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Add an MMIO handling framework to the VGIC emulation:
Each register is described by its offset, size (or number of bits per
IRQ, if applicable) and the read/write handler functions. We provide
initialization macros to describe each GIC register later easily.
Separate dispatch functions for read and write accesses are connected
to the kvm_io_bus framework and binary-search for the responsible
register handler based on the offset address within the region.
We convert the incoming data (referenced by a pointer) to the host's
endianess and use pass-by-value to hand the data over to the actual
handler functions.
The register handler prototype and the endianess conversion are
courtesy of Christoffer Dall.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Tell KVM whether a particular VCPU has an IRQ that needs handling
in the guest. This is used to decide whether a VCPU is runnable.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
As the GICv3 virtual interface registers differ from their GICv2
siblings, we need different handlers for processing maintenance
interrupts and reading/writing to the LRs.
Implement the respective handler functions and connect them to
existing code to be called if the host is using a GICv3.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Processing maintenance interrupts and accessing the list registers
are dependent on the host's GIC version.
Introduce vgic-v2.c to contain GICv2 specific functions.
Implement the GICv2 specific code for syncing the emulation state
into the VGIC registers.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Implement the framework for syncing IRQs between our emulation and
the list registers, which represent the guest's view of IRQs.
This is done in kvm_vgic_flush_hwstate and kvm_vgic_sync_hwstate,
which gets called on guest entry and exit.
The code talking to the actual GICv2/v3 hardware is added in the
following patches.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Adds the sorting function to cover the case where you have more IRQs
to consider than you have LRs. We now consider priorities.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Provide a vgic_queue_irq_unlock() function which decides whether a
given IRQ needs to be queued to a VCPU's ap_list.
This should be called whenever an IRQ becomes pending or enabled,
either as a result of userspace injection, from in-kernel emulated
devices like the architected timer or from MMIO accesses to the
distributor emulation.
Also provides the necessary functions to allow userland to inject an
IRQ to a guest.
Since this is the first code that starts using our locking mechanism, we
add some (hopefully) clear documentation of our locking strategy and
requirements along with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
The new VGIC implementation centers around a struct vgic_irq instance
per virtual IRQ.
Provide a function to retrieve the right instance for a given IRQ
number and (in case of private interrupts) the right VCPU.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
As (some) GICv3 hosts can emulate a GICv2, some GICv2 specific masks
for the list register definition also apply to GICv3 LRs.
At the moment we have those definitions in the KVM VGICv3
implementation, so let's move them into the GICv3 header file to
have them automatically defined.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Currently the PMU uses a member of the struct vgic_dist directly,
which not only breaks abstraction, but will fail with the new VGIC.
Abstract this access in the VGIC header file and refactor the validity
check in the PMU code.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
When the kernel was handling a guest MMIO read access internally, we
need to copy the emulation result into the run->mmio structure in order
for the kvm_handle_mmio_return() function to pick it up and inject the
result back into the guest.
Currently the only user of kvm_io_bus for ARM is the VGIC, which did
this copying itself, so this was not causing issues so far.
But with the upcoming new vgic implementation we need this done
properly.
Update the kvm_handle_mmio_return description and cleanup the code to
only perform a single copying when needed.
Code and commit message inspired by Andre Przywara.
Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
The number of list registers is a property of the underlying system, not
of emulated VGIC CPU interface.
As we are about to move this variable to global state in the new vgic
for clarity, move it from the legacy implementation as well to make the
merge of the new code easier.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
We are about to modify the VGIC to allocate all data structures
dynamically and store mapped IRQ information on a per-IRQ struct, which
is indeed allocated dynamically at init time.
Therefore, we cannot record the mapped IRQ info from the timer at timer
reset time like it's done now, because VCPU reset happens before timer
init.
A possible later time to do this is on the first run of a per VCPU, it
just requires us to move the enable state to be a per-VCPU state and do
the lookup of the physical IRQ number when we are about to run the VCPU.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Now that the virtual arch timer does not care about the irq_phys_map
anymore, let's rework kvm_vgic_map_phys_irq() to return an error
value instead. Any reference to that mapping can later be done by
passing the correct combination of VCPU and virtual IRQ number.
This makes the irq_phys_map handling completely private to the
VGIC code.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Now that the interface between the arch timer and the VGIC does not
require passing the irq_phys_map entry pointer anymore, let's remove
it from the virtual arch timer and use the virtual IRQ number instead
directly.
The remaining pointer returned by kvm_vgic_map_phys_irq() will be
removed in the following patch.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The communication of a Linux IRQ number from outside the VGIC to the
vgic was a leftover from the day when the vgic code cared about how a
particular device injects virtual interrupts mapped to a physical
interrupt.
We can safely remove this notion, leaving all physical IRQ handling to
be done in the device driver (the arch timer in this case), which makes
room for a saner API for the new VGIC.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
kvm_vgic_unmap_phys_irq() only needs the virtual IRQ number, so let's
just pass that between the arch timer and the VGIC to get rid of
the irq_phys_map pointer.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
For getting the active state of a mapped IRQ, we actually only need
the virtual IRQ number, not the pointer to the mapping entry.
Pass the virtual IRQ number from the arch timer to the VGIC directly.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
When we want to inject a hardware mapped IRQ into a guest, we actually
only need the virtual IRQ number from the irq_phys_map.
So let's pass this number directly from the arch timer to the VGIC
to avoid using the map as a parameter.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
We actually don't use the irq_phys_map parameter in
vgic_update_irq_pending(), so let's just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Currently, the firmware tables are parsed 2 times: once in the GIC
drivers, the other time when initializing the vGIC. It means code
duplication and make more tedious to add the support for another
firmware table (like ACPI).
Use the recently introduced helper gic_get_kvm_info() to get
information about the virtual GIC.
With this change, the virtual GIC becomes agnostic to the firmware
table and KVM will be able to initialize the vGIC on ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The firmware table is currently parsed by the virtual timer code in
order to retrieve the virtual timer interrupt. However, this is already
done by the arch timer driver.
To avoid code duplication, use the newly function arch_timer_get_kvm_info()
which return all the information required by the virtual timer code.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
On a host that runs NTP, corrections can have a direct impact on
the background timer that we program on the behalf of a vcpu.
In particular, NTP performing a forward correction will result in
a timer expiring sooner than expected from a guest point of view.
Not a big deal, we kick the vcpu anyway.
But on wake-up, the vcpu thread is going to perform a check to
find out whether or not it should block. And at that point, the
timer check is going to say "timer has not expired yet, go back
to sleep". This results in the timer event being lost forever.
There are multiple ways to handle this. One would be record that
the timer has expired and let kvm_cpu_has_pending_timer return
true in that case, but that would be fairly invasive. Another is
to check for the "short sleep" condition in the hrtimer callback,
and restart the timer for the remaining time when the condition
is detected.
This patch implements the latter, with a bit of refactoring in
order to avoid too much code duplication.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
The kernel is written in C, not python, so we need braces around
multi-line if statements. GCC 6 actually warns about this, thanks to the
fantastic new "-Wmisleading-indentation" flag:
| virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c: In function ‘kvm_pmu_overflow_status’:
| virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c:198:3: warning: statement is indented as if it were guarded by... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
| reg &= vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, PMCNTENSET_EL0);
| ^~~
| arch/arm64/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/arm/pmu.c:196:2: note: ...this ‘if’ clause, but it is not
| if ((vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, PMCR_EL0) & ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_E))
| ^~
As it turns out, this particular case is harmless (we just do some &=
operations with 0), but worth fixing nonetheless.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
smp_load_acquire() is enough here and it's cheaper than smp_mb().
Adding a comment about reusing memory barrier of kvm_make_all_cpus_request()
here to keep order between modifications to the page tables and reading mode.
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Moving the initialization earlier is needed in 4.6 because
kvm_arch_init_vm is now using mmu_lock, causing lockdep to
complain:
[ 284.440294] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
[ 284.445259] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
[ 284.450736] turning off the locking correctness validator.
...
[ 284.528318] [<ffffffff810aecc3>] lock_acquire+0xd3/0x240
[ 284.533733] [<ffffffffa0305aa0>] ? kvm_page_track_register_notifier+0x20/0x60 [kvm]
[ 284.541467] [<ffffffff81715581>] _raw_spin_lock+0x41/0x80
[ 284.546960] [<ffffffffa0305aa0>] ? kvm_page_track_register_notifier+0x20/0x60 [kvm]
[ 284.554707] [<ffffffffa0305aa0>] kvm_page_track_register_notifier+0x20/0x60 [kvm]
[ 284.562281] [<ffffffffa02ece70>] kvm_mmu_init_vm+0x20/0x30 [kvm]
[ 284.568381] [<ffffffffa02dbf7a>] kvm_arch_init_vm+0x1ea/0x200 [kvm]
[ 284.574740] [<ffffffffa02bff3f>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0xbf/0x4d0 [kvm]
However, it also helps fixing a preexisting problem, which is why this
patch is also good for stable kernels: kvm_create_vm was incrementing
current->mm->mm_count but not decrementing it at the out_err label (in
case kvm_init_mmu_notifier failed). The new initialization order makes
it possible to add the required mmdrop without adding a new error label.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull x86 protection key support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds support for a new memory protection hardware feature
that is available in upcoming Intel CPUs: 'protection keys' (pkeys).
There's a background article at LWN.net:
https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/
The gist is that protection keys allow the encoding of
user-controllable permission masks in the pte. So instead of having a
fixed protection mask in the pte (which needs a system call to change
and works on a per page basis), the user can map a (handful of)
protection mask variants and can change the masks runtime relatively
cheaply, without having to change every single page in the affected
virtual memory range.
This allows the dynamic switching of the protection bits of large
amounts of virtual memory, via user-space instructions. It also
allows more precise control of MMU permission bits: for example the
executable bit is separate from the read bit (see more about that
below).
This tree adds the MM infrastructure and low level x86 glue needed for
that, plus it adds a high level API to make use of protection keys -
if a user-space application calls:
mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);
or
mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);
(note PROT_EXEC-only, without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will notice
this special case, and will set a special protection key on this
memory range. It also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection
Keys User Rights (PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable
and unwritable.
So using protection keys the kernel is able to implement 'true'
PROT_EXEC on x86 CPUs: without protection keys PROT_EXEC implies
PROT_READ as well. Unreadable executable mappings have security
advantages: they cannot be read via information leaks to figure out
ASLR details, nor can they be scanned for ROP gadgets - and they
cannot be used by exploits for data purposes either.
We know about no user-space code that relies on pure PROT_EXEC
mappings today, but binary loaders could start making use of this new
feature to map binaries and libraries in a more secure fashion.
There is other pending pkeys work that offers more high level system
call APIs to manage protection keys - but those are not part of this
pull request.
Right now there's a Kconfig that controls this feature
(CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS) that is default enabled
(like most x86 CPU feature enablement code that has no runtime
overhead), but it's not user-configurable at the moment. If there's
any serious problem with this then we can make it configurable and/or
flip the default"
* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix mismerge of protection keys CPUID bits
mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix access_error() denial of writes to write-only VMA
mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support
x86/mm/pkeys: Create an x86 arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() for VMA flags
x86/mm/pkeys: Allow kernel to modify user pkey rights register
x86/fpu: Allow setting of XSAVE state
x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init
mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add arch_validate_pkey()
mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()
x86/mm/pkeys: Actually enable Memory Protection Keys in the CPU
x86/mm/pkeys: Add Kconfig prompt to existing config option
x86/mm/pkeys: Dump pkey from VMA in /proc/pid/smaps
x86/mm/pkeys: Dump PKRU with other kernel registers
mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Differentiate instruction fetches
x86/mm/pkeys: Optimize fault handling in access_error()
mm/core: Do not enforce PKEY permissions on remote mm access
um, pkeys: Add UML arch_*_access_permitted() methods
mm/gup, x86/mm/pkeys: Check VMAs and PTEs for protection keys
x86/mm/gup: Simplify get_user_pages() PTE bit handling
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