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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h
index 491960bf4260..af5d5d1388c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/traps.h
@@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ static inline int in_exception_text(unsigned long ptr)
 extern void __init early_trap_init(void);
 extern void dump_backtrace_entry(unsigned long where, unsigned long from, unsigned long frame);
 
+extern void *vectors_page;
+
 #endif