Re: [PATCH v3 08/14] arm64: exec: Adjust affinity for compat tasks with mismatched 32-bit EL0

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 11:15:05 EST


On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:37:13AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> When exec'ing a 32-bit task on a system with mismatched support for
> 32-bit EL0, try to ensure that it starts life on a CPU that can actually
> run it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/process.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> index 1540ab0fbf23..17b94007fed4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
> @@ -625,6 +625,16 @@ unsigned long arch_align_stack(unsigned long sp)
> return sp & ~0xf;
> }
>
> +static void adjust_compat_task_affinity(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + const struct cpumask *mask = system_32bit_el0_cpumask();
> +
> + if (restrict_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, mask))
> + set_cpus_allowed_ptr(p, mask);

This silently destroys user state, at the very least that ought to go
with a WARN or something. Ideally SIGKILL though. What's to stop someone
from doing a sched_setaffinity() right after the execve, same problem.
So why bother..

> +
> + set_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Called from setup_new_exec() after (COMPAT_)SET_PERSONALITY.
> */
> @@ -635,7 +645,7 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void)
> if (is_compat_task()) {
> mmflags = MMCF_AARCH32;
> if (static_branch_unlikely(&arm64_mismatched_32bit_el0))
> - set_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME);
> + adjust_compat_task_affinity(current);
> }
>
> current->mm->context.flags = mmflags;
> --
> 2.29.2.299.gdc1121823c-goog
>