Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] arm64: BTI: Reset BTYPE when skipping emulated instructions

From: Dave Martin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:47:43 +0100

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:21:58PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Since normal execution of any non-branch instruction resets the
> > PSTATE BTYPE field to 0, so do the same thing when emulating a
> > trapped instruction.
> > 
> > Branches don't trap directly, so we should never need to assign a
> > non-zero value to BTYPE here.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> > index 3af2768..4d8ce50 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> > @@ -331,6 +331,8 @@ void arm64_skip_faulting_instruction(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long size)
> >  
> >  	if (regs->pstate & PSR_MODE32_BIT)
> >  		advance_itstate(regs);
> > +	else
> > +		regs->pstate &= ~(u64)PSR_BTYPE_MASK;
> 
> This looks good to me, with one nit below.
> 
> We don't (currently) need the u64 cast here, and it's inconsistent with
> what we do elsewhere. If the upper 32-bit of pstate get allocated, we'll
> need to fix up all the other masking we do:

Huh, looks like I missed that.  Dang.  Will fix.

> [mark@lakrids:~/src/linux]% git grep 'pstate &= ~'
> arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:           regs->pstate &= ~PSR_AA32_E_BIT;
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c:         regs->pstate &= ~PSR_SSBS_BIT;
> arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c:     regs->pstate &= ~DBG_SPSR_SS;
> arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c:       pstate &= ~(pstate >> 1);       /* PSR_C_BIT &= ~PSR_Z_BIT */
> arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c:       pstate &= ~(pstate >> 1);       /* PSR_C_BIT &= ~PSR_Z_BIT */
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:     regs->pstate &= ~PSR_D_BIT;
> arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c:     regs->pstate &= ~DAIF_MASK;
> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:     regs->pstate &= ~SPSR_EL1_AARCH32_RES0_BITS;
> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:                     regs->pstate &= ~PSR_AA32_E_BIT;
> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:     regs->pstate &= ~SPSR_EL1_AARCH64_RES0_BITS;
> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c:             regs->pstate &= ~DBG_SPSR_SS;
> arch/arm64/kernel/ssbd.c:       task_pt_regs(task)->pstate &= ~val;
> arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:      regs->pstate &= ~PSR_AA32_IT_MASK;
> 
> ... and at that point I'd suggest we should just ensure the bit
> definitions are all defined as unsigned long in the first place since
> adding casts to each use is error-prone.

Are we concerned about changing the types of UAPI #defines?  That can
cause subtle and unexpected breakage, especially when the signedness
of a #define changes.

Ideally, we'd just change all these to 1UL << n.

Cheers
---Dave

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