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, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 4414a01e1e8a..6d05f79a8cd2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -599,6 +599,14 @@ config CPU_CP15_MPU
         help
           Processor has the CP15 register, which has MPU related registers.
 
+config CPU_USE_DOMAINS
+        bool
+        depends on MMU
+        default y if !CPU_32v6K
+        help
+          This option enables or disables the use of domain switching
+          via the set_fs() function.
+
 #
 # CPU supports 36-bit I/O
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