arm64: errata: Workaround possible Cortex-A715 [ESR|FAR]_ELx corruption

If a Cortex-A715 cpu sees a page mapping permissions change from executable
to non-executable, it may corrupt the ESR_ELx and FAR_ELx registers, on the
next instruction abort caused by permission fault.

Only user-space does executable to non-executable permission transition via
mprotect() system call which calls ptep_modify_prot_start() and ptep_modify
_prot_commit() helpers, while changing the page mapping. The platform code
can override these helpers via __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MODIFY_PROT_TRANSACTION.

Work around the problem via doing a break-before-make TLB invalidation, for
all executable user space mappings, that go through mprotect() system call.
This overrides ptep_modify_prot_start() and ptep_modify_prot_commit(), via
defining HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MODIFY_PROT_TRANSACTION on the platform thus giving
an opportunity to intercept user space exec mappings, and do the necessary
TLB invalidation. Similar interceptions are also implemented for HugeTLB.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116140915.356601-3-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 9a7c38965154..5a19950e7289 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1702,3 +1702,24 @@ static int __init prevent_bootmem_remove_init(void)
 }
 early_initcall(prevent_bootmem_remove_init);
 #endif
+
+pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198) &&
+	    cpus_have_const_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198)) {
+		/*
+		 * Break-before-make (BBM) is required for all user space mappings
+		 * when the permission changes from executable to non-executable
+		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
+		 */
+		if (pte_user_exec(READ_ONCE(*ptep)))
+			return ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
+	}
+	return ptep_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep);
+}
+
+void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+			     pte_t old_pte, pte_t pte)
+{
+	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep, pte);
+}