ARM: 6384/1: Remove the domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs

This patch removes the domain switching functionality via the set_fs and
__switch_to functions on cores that have a TLS register.

Currently, the ioremap and vmalloc areas share the same level 1 page
tables and therefore have the same domain (DOMAIN_KERNEL). When the
kernel domain is modified from Client to Manager (via the __set_fs or in
the __switch_to function), the XN (eXecute Never) bit is overridden and
newer CPUs can speculatively prefetch the ioremap'ed memory.

Linux performs the kernel domain switching to allow user-specific
functions (copy_to/from_user, get/put_user etc.) to access kernel
memory. In order for these functions to work with the kernel domain set
to Client, the patch modifies the LDRT/STRT and related instructions to
the LDR/STR ones.

The user pages access rights are also modified for kernel read-only
access rather than read/write so that the copy-on-write mechanism still
works. CPU_USE_DOMAINS gets disabled only if the hardware has a TLS register
(CPU_32v6K is defined) since writing the TLS value to the high vectors page
isn't possible.

The user addresses passed to the kernel are checked by the access_ok()
function so that they do not point to the kernel space.

Tested-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c b/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
index 6ff7919613d7..d601ef297eb6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/fiq.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <asm/fiq.h>
 #include <asm/irq.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>
 
 static unsigned long no_fiq_insn;
 
@@ -77,7 +78,11 @@ int show_fiq_list(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
 
 void set_fiq_handler(void *start, unsigned int length)
 {
+#if defined(CONFIG_CPU_USE_DOMAINS)
         memcpy((void *)0xffff001c, start, length);
+#else
+        memcpy(vectors_page + 0x1c, start, length);
+#endif
         flush_icache_range(0xffff001c, 0xffff001c + length);
         if (!vectors_high())
                 flush_icache_range(0x1c, 0x1c + length);