On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 15:17, Linus Walleij <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 2:24 PM Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> >
> > EFI runtime services are remapped into the lower 1 GiB of virtual
> > address space at boot, so they are guaranteed to be able to co-exist
> > with the kernel virtual mappings without the need to allocate space for
> > them in the kernel's vmalloc region, which is rather small.
> >
> > This means those mappings are covered by TTBR0 when LPAE PAN is enabled,
> > and so 'user' access must be enabled while such calls are in progress.
> >
> > To avoid the need to refactor the code that is shared between ARM, arm64
> > and other EFI architectures, fold this into efi_set_pgd(). Given that
> > EFI runtime services are serialized and not pre-emptible, storing the
> > flags into a global variable is reasonable here - efi_set_pgd() calls
> > will always occur in pairs on a single CPU.
> >
> > Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
>
> Makes sense to me! Thanks for looking into this.
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
>

Thanks, I'll queue this up as a EFI fix.

Note that I have to fix an error in the patch: CONFIG_ARM_TTBR0_PAN
does not exist, it should be CONFIG_CPU_TTBR0_PAN (and don't ask me
why it worked because it definitely did - probably forgot to do git
commit --amend)

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