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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] arm64: sdei: Always use sdei stack for sdei events
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 21:58:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181107215844.GC12248@brain-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1537970184-44348-3-git-send-email-julien.thierry@arm.com>

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:56:19PM +0100, Julien Thierry wrote:
> SDEI events can occur at any point, including when the stack pointer is
> not aligned. SP could be modified to respect alignment 16-byte alignement,
> but there is a need to deal with code using SP as scratch register.
> 
> Always reserve the SDEI stacks to handle its events.
> 
> Since stack allocation relies on VMAPed stacks, lets make SDEI depend on
> VMAP_STACK.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/sdei.h |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S     |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/sdei.c      | 23 ++++++++---------------
>  drivers/firmware/Kconfig      |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

One side-effect of this change is that SDEI cannot be enabled in conjunction
with KASAN. James -- are you ok with that?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-07 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-26 13:56 [PATCH 0/7] Ensure stack is aligned for kernel entries Julien Thierry
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 1/7] arm64: Add static check for pt_regs alignment Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:58   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 10:16     ` Mark Rutland
2018-11-08 11:57       ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-08 16:53         ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 18:35   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 2/7] arm64: sdei: Always use sdei stack for sdei events Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:58   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-11-21 11:15     ` James Morse
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: Align stack when taking exception from EL1 Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:59   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:20     ` Julien Thierry
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 4/7] arm64: Add fast-path for stack alignment Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:59   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:21     ` Julien Thierry
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm64: Do not apply BP hardening for hyp entries from EL2 Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:59   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:23     ` Julien Thierry
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 6/7] arm64: Do not apply vector harderning " Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:59   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:31     ` Julien Thierry
2018-09-26 13:56 ` [PATCH 7/7] arm64: kvm: Align stack for exception coming " Julien Thierry
2018-10-19  8:07 ` [PATCH 0/7] Ensure stack is aligned for kernel entries Julien Thierry
2018-11-07 21:58 ` Will Deacon
2018-11-08 12:43   ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-08 13:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-08 13:27   ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-08 14:10     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-08 14:19       ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2018-11-08 15:01         ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-08 15:33           ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2018-11-08 15:41             ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-08 15:30         ` Dave Martin
2018-11-08 15:33           ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2018-11-08 15:39             ` Dave Martin
2018-11-08 15:44               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-08 16:57                 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2018-11-08 17:14                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-22 11:49 ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-22 12:11   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-11-22 15:10     ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-22 15:12     ` Will Deacon

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