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| author | Mark Rutland | 2016-11-03 21:23:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas | 2016-11-11 19:25:46 +0100 |
| commit | c02433dd6de32f042cf3ffe476746b1115b8c096 (patch) | |
| tree | 265e0b7925a4c665a64b5f8d4279d16dcb947ee2 /arch/arm64/Kconfig | |
| parent | arm64: assembler: introduce ldr_this_cpu (diff) | |
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arm64: split thread_info from task stack
This patch moves arm64's struct thread_info from the task stack into
task_struct. This protects thread_info from corruption in the case of
stack overflows, and makes its address harder to determine if stack
addresses are leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult. Precise
detection and handling of overflow is left for subsequent patches.
Largely, this involves changing code to store the task_struct in sp_el0,
and acquire the thread_info from the task struct. Core code now
implements current_thread_info(), and as noted in <linux/sched.h> this
relies on offsetof(task_struct, thread_info) == 0, enforced by core
code.
This change means that the 'tsk' register used in entry.S now points to
a task_struct, rather than a thread_info as it used to. To make this
clear, the TI_* field offsets are renamed to TSK_TI_*, with asm-offsets
appropriately updated to account for the structural change.
Userspace clobbers sp_el0, and we can no longer restore this from the
stack. Instead, the current task is cached in a per-cpu variable that we
can safely access from early assembly as interrupts are disabled (and we
are thus not preemptible).
Both secondary entry and idle are updated to stash the sp and task
pointer separately.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 77a807a844ac..0b8227f23eed 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ config ARM64 select POWER_SUPPLY select SPARSE_IRQ select SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE + select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK help ARM 64-bit (AArch64) Linux support. |