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authorJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>2016-02-05 14:58:48 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2016-02-18 17:27:04 +0000
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parentarm64: add ARMv8.2 id_aa64mmfr2 boiler plate (diff)
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arm64: kernel: Add support for User Access Override
'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in the normal way. This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr* instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory. This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the page tables, instead of testing addr<USER_DS, then using the kernel's read/write permissions. Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> [catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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