arm64: Introduce prctl(PR_PAC_{SET,GET}_ENABLED_KEYS)
This change introduces a prctl that allows the user program to control
which PAC keys are enabled in a particular task. The main reason
why this is useful is to enable a userspace ABI that uses PAC to
sign and authenticate function pointers and other pointers exposed
outside of the function, while still allowing binaries conforming
to the ABI to interoperate with legacy binaries that do not sign or
authenticate pointers.
The idea is that a dynamic loader or early startup code would issue
this prctl very early after establishing that a process may load legacy
binaries, but before executing any PAC instructions.
This change adds a small amount of overhead to kernel entry and exit
due to additional required instruction sequences.
On a DragonBoard 845c (Cortex-A75) with the powersave governor, the
overhead of similar instruction sequences was measured as 4.9ns when
simulating the common case where IA is left enabled, or 43.7ns when
simulating the uncommon case where IA is disabled. These numbers can
be seen as the worst case scenario, since in more realistic scenarios
a better performing governor would be used and a newer chip would be
used that would support PAC unlike Cortex-A75 and would be expected
to be faster than Cortex-A75.
On an Apple M1 under a hypervisor, the overhead of the entry/exit
instruction sequences introduced by this patch was measured as 0.3ns
in the case where IA is left enabled, and 33.0ns in the case where
IA is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ibc41a5e6a76b275efbaa126b31119dc197b927a5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d6609065f8f40397a4124654eb68c9f490b4d477.1616123271.git.pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index de0ab08..d583cba 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -339,7 +339,6 @@ void flush_thread(void)
tls_thread_flush();
flush_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(current);
flush_tagged_addr_state();
- flush_mte_state();
}
void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
@@ -531,7 +530,11 @@ static void erratum_1418040_thread_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
static void update_sctlr_el1(u64 sctlr)
{
- sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_USER_MASK, sctlr);
+ /*
+ * EnIA must not be cleared while in the kernel as this is necessary for
+ * in-kernel PAC. It will be cleared on kernel exit if needed.
+ */
+ sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, SCTLR_USER_MASK & ~SCTLR_ELx_ENIA, sctlr);
/* ISB required for the kernel uaccess routines when setting TCF0. */
isb();
@@ -632,7 +635,8 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void)
{
current->mm->context.flags = is_compat_task() ? MMCF_AARCH32 : 0;
- ptrauth_thread_init_user(current);
+ ptrauth_thread_init_user();
+ mte_thread_init_user();
if (task_spec_ssb_noexec(current)) {
arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_set(current, PR_SPEC_STORE_BYPASS,
