From patchwork Thu Aug 15 15:44:02 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Catalin Marinas X-Patchwork-Id: 11095907 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 833601398 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718EB1FF41 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 65C7C205A8; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF012872F for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id BA1786B02AA; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: linux-mm-outgoing@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id B29226B02AC; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 9F2516B02AD; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: linux-mm@kvack.org X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0179.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F09E6B02AA for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin03.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay01.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 01AD5180AD802 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:17 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 75825083754.03.push75_7c9d4015ef43d X-HE-Tag: push75_7c9d4015ef43d X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 8022 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by imf44.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC811597; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arrakis.cambridge.arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CC42A3F738; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:44:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Catalin Marinas To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Vincenzo Frascino , Will Deacon , Andrey Konovalov , Szabolcs Nagy , Kevin Brodsky , Dave P Martin , Dave Hansen , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v8 4/5] arm64: Define Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:44:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20190815154403.16473-5-catalin.marinas@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.23.0.rc0 In-Reply-To: <20190815154403.16473-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com> References: <20190815154403.16473-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Vincenzo Frascino On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace (EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero top byte. Introduce the document describing the relaxation of the syscall ABI that allows userspace to pass certain tagged pointers to kernel syscalls. Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Szabolcs Nagy Cc: Kevin Brodsky Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino Co-developed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov --- Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 155 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8808337775d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/tagged-address-abi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +========================== +AArch64 TAGGED ADDRESS ABI +========================== + +Authors: Vincenzo Frascino + Catalin Marinas + +Date: 15 August 2019 + +This document describes the usage and semantics of the Tagged Address +ABI on AArch64 Linux. + +1. Introduction +--------------- + +On AArch64 the TCR_EL1.TBI0 bit is set by default, allowing userspace +(EL0) to perform memory accesses through 64-bit pointers with a non-zero +top byte. This document describes the relaxation of the syscall ABI that +allows userspace to pass certain tagged pointers to kernel syscalls. + +2. AArch64 Tagged Address ABI +----------------------------- + +From the kernel syscall interface perspective and for the purposes of +this document, a "valid tagged pointer" is a pointer with a potentially +non-zero top-byte that references an address in the user process address +space obtained in one of the following ways: + +- mmap() done by the process itself (or its parent), where either: + + - flags have the **MAP_ANONYMOUS** bit set + - the file descriptor refers to a regular file (including those + returned by memfd_create()) or **/dev/zero** + +- brk() system call done by the process itself (i.e. the heap area + between the initial location of the program break at process creation + and its current location). + +- any memory mapped by the kernel in the address space of the process + during creation and with the same restrictions as for mmap() above + (e.g. data, bss, stack). + +The AArch64 Tagged Address ABI has two stages of relaxation depending +how the user addresses are used by the kernel: + +1. User addresses not accessed by the kernel but used for address space + management (e.g. mmap(), mprotect(), madvise()). The use of valid + tagged pointers in this context is always allowed. + +2. User addresses accessed by the kernel (e.g. write()). This ABI + relaxation is disabled by default and the application thread needs to + explicitly enable it via **prctl()** as follows: + + - **PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL**: enable or disable the AArch64 Tagged + Address ABI for the calling thread. + + The (unsigned int) arg2 argument is a bit mask describing the + control mode used: + + - **PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE**: enable AArch64 Tagged Address ABI. + Default status is disabled. + + Arguments arg3, arg4, and arg5 must be 0. + + - **PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL**: get the status of the AArch64 Tagged + Address ABI for the calling thread. + + Arguments arg2, arg3, arg4, and arg5 must be 0. + + The ABI properties described above are thread-scoped, inherited on + clone() and fork() and cleared on exec(). + + Calling prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0) + returns -EINVAL if the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is globally disabled + by sysctl abi.tagged_addr_disabled=1. The default sysctl + abi.tagged_addr_disabled configuration is 0. + +When the AArch64 Tagged Address ABI is enabled for a thread, the +following behaviours are guaranteed: + +- All syscalls except the cases mentioned in section 3 can accept any + valid tagged pointer. + +- The syscall behaviour is undefined for invalid tagged pointers: it may + result in an error code being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, + or other modes of failure. + +- A valid tagged pointer has the same semantics as the corresponding + untagged pointer. + +A definition of the meaning of tagged pointers on AArch64 can be found +in Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.rst. + +3. AArch64 Tagged Address ABI Exceptions +----------------------------------------- + +The following system call parameters must be untagged regardless of the +ABI relaxation: + +- prctl() other than arguments pointing to user structures to be + accessed by the kernel. + +- ioctl() other than arguments pointing to user structures to be + accessed by the kernel. + +- shmat() and shmdt(). + +Any attempt to use non-zero tagged pointers may result in an error code +being returned, a (fatal) signal being raised, or other modes of +failure. + +4. Example of correct usage +--------------------------- +.. code-block:: c + + #include + #include + #include + #include + #include + + #define PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL 55 + #define PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE (1UL << 0) + + #define TAG_SHIFT 56 + + int main(void) + { + int tbi_enabled = 0; + unsigned long tag = 0; + char *ptr; + + /* check/enable the tagged address ABI */ + if (!prctl(PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL, PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0)) + tbi_enabled = 1; + + /* memory allocation */ + ptr = mmap(NULL, sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, + MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); + if (ptr == MAP_FAILED) + return 1; + + /* set a non-zero tag if the ABI is available */ + if (tbi_enabled) + tag = rand() & 0xff; + ptr = (char *)((unsigned long)ptr | (tag << TAG_SHIFT)); + + /* memory access to a tagged address */ + strcpy(ptr, "tagged pointer\n"); + + /* syscall with a tagged pointer */ + write(1, ptr, strlen(ptr)); + + return 0; + }