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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2016-11-03 23:23:13 +0300
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-11-11 21:25:46 +0300
commitc02433dd6de32f042cf3ffe476746b1115b8c096 (patch)
tree265e0b7925a4c665a64b5f8d4279d16dcb947ee2 /arch/arm64/Kconfig
parent1b7e2296a822dfd2349960addc42a139360ce769 (diff)
downloadlinux-c02433dd6de32f042cf3ffe476746b1115b8c096.tar.xz
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')
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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.