From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: signal: Preserve POR_EL0 if poe_context is missing
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:42:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421144252.1440365-2-kevin.brodsky@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260421144252.1440365-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Commit 2e8a1acea859 ("arm64: signal: Improve POR_EL0 handling to
avoid uaccess failures") delayed the write to POR_EL0 in
rt_sigreturn to avoid spurious uaccess failures. This change however
relies on the poe_context frame record being present: on a system
supporting POE, calling sigreturn without a poe_context record now
results in writing arbitrary data from the kernel stack into POR_EL0.
Fix this by adding a valid_fields member to struct
user_access_state, and zeroing the struct on allocation.
restore_poe_context() then indicates that the por_el0 field is valid
by setting the corresponding bit in valid_fields, and
restore_user_access_state() only touches POR_EL0 if there is a valid
value to set it to. This is in line with how POR_EL0 was originally
handled; all frame records are currently optional, except
fpsimd_context.
restore_user_access_state() is also called if setting up the signal
frame fails, so we also initialise valid_fields in that case. For
consistency, setup_sigframe() now also checks valid_fields to decide
whether to write a poe_context record, avoiding another call to
system_supports_poe().
Fixes: 2e8a1acea859 ("arm64: signal: Improve POR_EL0 handling to avoid uaccess failures")
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
index 08ffc5a5aea4..3f17aed5b4f0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ struct rt_sigframe_user_layout {
unsigned long end_offset;
};
+#define UA_STATE_HAS_POR_EL0 BIT(0)
+
/*
* Holds any EL0-controlled state that influences unprivileged memory accesses.
* This includes both accesses done in userspace and uaccess done in the kernel.
@@ -74,8 +76,12 @@ struct rt_sigframe_user_layout {
* This state needs to be carefully managed to ensure that it doesn't cause
* uaccess to fail when setting up the signal frame, and the signal handler
* itself also expects a well-defined state when entered.
+ *
+ * The valid_fields member is a bitfield (see UA_STATE_HAS_*), specifying which
+ * of the remaining fields is valid (has been set to a value).
*/
struct user_access_state {
+ unsigned int valid_fields;
u64 por_el0;
};
@@ -95,6 +101,7 @@ static void save_reset_user_access_state(struct user_access_state *ua_state)
por_enable_all |= POR_ELx_PERM_PREP(pkey, POE_RWX);
ua_state->por_el0 = read_sysreg_s(SYS_POR_EL0);
+ ua_state->valid_fields |= UA_STATE_HAS_POR_EL0;
write_sysreg_s(por_enable_all, SYS_POR_EL0);
/*
* No ISB required as we can tolerate spurious Overlay faults -
@@ -122,7 +129,7 @@ static void set_handler_user_access_state(void)
*/
static void restore_user_access_state(const struct user_access_state *ua_state)
{
- if (system_supports_poe())
+ if (ua_state->valid_fields & UA_STATE_HAS_POR_EL0)
write_sysreg_s(ua_state->por_el0, SYS_POR_EL0);
}
@@ -352,8 +359,10 @@ static int restore_poe_context(struct user_ctxs *user,
return -EINVAL;
__get_user_error(por_el0, &(user->poe->por_el0), err);
- if (!err)
+ if (!err) {
ua_state->por_el0 = por_el0;
+ ua_state->valid_fields |= UA_STATE_HAS_POR_EL0;
+ }
return err;
}
@@ -1095,7 +1104,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(rt_sigreturn)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
struct rt_sigframe __user *frame;
- struct user_access_state ua_state;
+ struct user_access_state ua_state = {0};
/* Always make any pending restarted system calls return -EINTR */
current->restart_block.fn = do_no_restart_syscall;
@@ -1302,7 +1311,7 @@ static int setup_sigframe(struct rt_sigframe_user_layout *user,
err |= preserve_fpmr_context(fpmr_ctx);
}
- if (system_supports_poe() && err == 0) {
+ if ((ua_state->valid_fields & UA_STATE_HAS_POR_EL0) && err == 0) {
struct poe_context __user *poe_ctx =
apply_user_offset(user, user->poe_offset);
@@ -1507,7 +1516,7 @@ static int setup_rt_frame(int usig, struct ksignal *ksig, sigset_t *set,
{
struct rt_sigframe_user_layout user;
struct rt_sigframe __user *frame;
- struct user_access_state ua_state;
+ struct user_access_state ua_state = {0};
int err = 0;
fpsimd_save_and_flush_current_state();
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-21 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-21 14:42 [PATCH 0/4] POE sigreturn fix and extra tests Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 14:42 ` Kevin Brodsky [this message]
2026-04-22 12:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: signal: Preserve POR_EL0 if poe_context is missing Will Deacon
2026-04-22 14:55 ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-23 12:41 ` Will Deacon
2026-04-24 9:24 ` Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] kselftest/arm64: Add POE as a feature in the signal tests Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 14:58 ` Mark Brown
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] kselftest/arm64: Add POE helpers to test_signals_utils.h Kevin Brodsky
2026-04-21 15:00 ` Mark Brown
2026-04-21 14:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] kselftest/arm64: Add tests for POR_EL0 save/reset/restore Kevin Brodsky
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