Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Fix ttbr0 values stored in struct thread_info for software-pan

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:02:58PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> When using CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN, a task's thread_info::ttbr0 must be
> the TTBR0_EL1 value used to run userspace. With 52-bit PAs, the PA must be
> packed into the TTBR using phys_to_ttbr(), but we forget to do this in some
> of the SW PAN code. Thus, if the value is installed into TTBR0_EL1 (as may
> happen in the uaccess routines), this could result in UNPREDICTABLE
> behaviour.
> 
> Since hardware with 52-bit PA support almost certainly has HW PAN, which
> will be used in preference, this shouldn't be a practical issue, but let's
> fix this for consistency.

I'm ok with fixing this for consistency. We should never hit those paths
unless someone built hardware with 52-bit PA (8.2) but without PAN (8.1)
and it would not be architecture compliant.

I'll leave it with Will for 5.14, it's no a fix that needs urgent
queuing.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>