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Commit fc703d80 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: uaccess: split user/kernel routines



This patch separates arm64's user and kernel memory access primitives
into distinct routines, adding new __{get,put}_kernel_nofault() helpers
to access kernel memory, upon which core code builds larger copy
routines.

The kernel access routines (using LDR/STR) are not affected by PAN (when
legitimately accessing kernel memory), nor are they affected by UAO.
Switching to KERNEL_DS may set UAO, but this does not adversely affect
the kernel access routines.

The user access routines (using LDTR/STTR) are not affected by PAN (when
legitimately accessing user memory), but are affected by UAO. As these
are only legitimate to use under USER_DS with UAO clear, this should not
be problematic.

Routines performing atomics to user memory (futex and deprecated
instruction emulation) still need to transiently clear PAN, and these
are left as-is. These are never used on kernel memory.

Subsequent patches will refactor the uaccess helpers to remove redundant
code, and will also remove the redundant PAN/UAO manipulation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202131558.39270-8-mark.rutland@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent f253d827
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