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ARM: 7384/1: ThumbEE: Disable userspace TEEHBR access for !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE
authorJonathan Austin <Jonathan.Austin@arm.com>
Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:45:25 +0000 (17:45 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:38:55 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
commit3bb3d575767c0e0978a079ce3765607b95ad2ce2
tree0c9a73b13b54443d8437e523e398f0caa3017b46
parent464070635ea618d01561be929bebd6a88aedf0ae
ARM: 7384/1: ThumbEE: Disable userspace TEEHBR access for !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE

commit 078c04545ba56da21567728a909a496df5ff730d upstream.

Currently when ThumbEE is not enabled (!CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE) the ThumbEE
register states are not saved/restored at context switch. The default state
of the ThumbEE Ctrl register (TEECR) allows userspace accesses to the
ThumbEE Base Handler register (TEEHBR). This can cause unexpected behaviour
when people use ThumbEE on !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE kernels, as well as allowing
covert communication - eg between userspace tasks running inside chroot
jails.

This patch sets up TEECR in order to prevent user-space access to TEEHBR
when !CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE. In this case, tasks are sent SIGILL if they try to
access TEEHBR.

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/mm/proc-v7.S