[PATCH] ARM: mm: shrink permanent FDT mapping to avoid mismatched attributes

[Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>]

Zhen Lei writes in commit 598f0a99fa8a ("ARM: 9210/1: Mark the FDT_FIXED
sections as shareable"):

  Commit 7a1be318f579 ("ARM: 9012/1: move device tree mapping out of
  linear region") uses FDT_FIXED_BASE to map the whole FDT_FIXED_SIZE
  memory area which contains fdt. But it only reserves the exact physical
  memory that fdt occupied. Unfortunately, this mapping is non-shareable.
  An illegal or speculative read access can bring the RAM content from
  non-fdt zone into cache, PIPT makes it to be hit by subsequently read
  access through shareable mapping (such as linear mapping), and the
  cache consistency between cores is lost due to non-shareable property.

  |<---------FDT_FIXED_SIZE------>|
  |                               |
   -------------------------------
  | <non-fdt> | <fdt> | <non-fdt> |
   -------------------------------

  1. CoreA read <non-fdt> through MT_ROM mapping, the old data is loaded
     into the cache.
  2. CoreB write <non-fdt> to update data through linear mapping. CoreA
     received the notification to invalid the corresponding cachelines,
     but the property non-shareable makes it to be ignored.
  3. CoreA read <non-fdt> through linear mapping, cache hit, the old data
     is read.

However, the resulting fix is incomplete, as mismatched shareability
attributes are not the only potential problem vector here: the non-fdt
regions might also be covered by a no-map memory reservation, or be
mapped with non-cacheable attributes for, e.g., firmware calls or
non-coherent DMA. This means, in order to eliminate any potential
mismatched attribute mappings, we must reduce the size of the FDT
mapping to match its memblock reservation, and eliminate the non-fdt
regions altogether.

The permanent FDT region will no longer cover the ATAGS when booting a
non-DT system, but this mapping was never used or exposed after boot
anyway. (The ATAGS are copied into a separate buffer by the early ATAGS
processing code)

Fixes: 7a1be318f579 ("ARM: 9012/1: move device tree mapping out of linear region")
Reported-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h |  1 -
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c       |  9 ++++++---
 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c             | 13 ++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
index a55a9038abc8..aeb83eb5d251 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@
 #define XIP_VIRT_ADDR(physaddr)  (MODULES_VADDR + ((physaddr) & 0x000fffff))
 
 #define FDT_FIXED_BASE		UL(0xff800000)
-#define FDT_FIXED_SIZE		(2 * SECTION_SIZE)
 #define FDT_VIRT_BASE(physbase)	((void *)(FDT_FIXED_BASE | (physbase) % SECTION_SIZE))
 
 #if !defined(CONFIG_SMP) && !defined(CONFIG_ARM_LPAE)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 1e8a50a97edf..fe07086f7e56 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -1092,6 +1092,8 @@ static struct notifier_block arm_restart_nb = {
 	.priority = 128,
 };
 
+unsigned int __initdata dtsize;
+
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
 	const struct machine_desc *mdesc = NULL;
@@ -1103,9 +1105,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	setup_processor();
 	if (atags_vaddr) {
 		mdesc = setup_machine_fdt(atags_vaddr);
-		if (mdesc)
-			memblock_reserve(__atags_pointer,
-					 fdt_totalsize(atags_vaddr));
+		if (mdesc) {
+			dtsize = fdt_totalsize(atags_vaddr);
+			memblock_reserve(__atags_pointer, dtsize);
+		}
 	}
 	if (!mdesc)
 		mdesc = setup_machine_tags(atags_vaddr, __machine_arch_type);
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index a49f0b9c0f75..ffe87df966ab 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #include "mm.h"
 #include "tcm.h"
 
-extern unsigned long __atags_pointer;
+extern void *initial_boot_params;
 
 /*
  * empty_zero_page is a special page that is used for
@@ -1388,11 +1388,14 @@ static void __init devicemaps_init(const struct machine_desc *mdesc)
 	for (addr = VMALLOC_START; addr < (FIXADDR_TOP & PMD_MASK); addr += PMD_SIZE)
 		pmd_clear(pmd_off_k(addr));
 
-	if (__atags_pointer) {
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OF_FLATTREE) && initial_boot_params) {
 		/* create a read-only mapping of the device tree */
-		map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(__atags_pointer & SECTION_MASK);
-		map.virtual = FDT_FIXED_BASE;
-		map.length = FDT_FIXED_SIZE;
+		extern unsigned long __atags_pointer;
+		extern unsigned int dtsize;
+
+		map.pfn = __phys_to_pfn(__atags_pointer);
+		map.virtual = (unsigned long)initial_boot_params;
+		map.length = dtsize;
 		map.type = MT_MEMORY_RO;
 		create_mapping(&map);
 	}
-- 
2.35.1


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