arm64: split thread_info from task stack

This patch moves arm64's struct thread_info from the task stack into
task_struct. This protects thread_info from corruption in the case of
stack overflows, and makes its address harder to determine if stack
addresses are leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult. Precise
detection and handling of overflow is left for subsequent patches.

Largely, this involves changing code to store the task_struct in sp_el0,
and acquire the thread_info from the task struct. Core code now
implements current_thread_info(), and as noted in <linux/sched.h> this
relies on offsetof(task_struct, thread_info) == 0, enforced by core
code.

This change means that the 'tsk' register used in entry.S now points to
a task_struct, rather than a thread_info as it used to. To make this
clear, the TI_* field offsets are renamed to TSK_TI_*, with asm-offsets
appropriately updated to account for the structural change.

Userspace clobbers sp_el0, and we can no longer restore this from the
stack. Instead, the current task is cached in a per-cpu variable that we
can safely access from early assembly as interrupts are disabled (and we
are thus not preemptible).

Both secondary entry and idle are updated to stash the sp and task
pointer separately.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
index ec7b9c00effe..a98b743631c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/process.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <trace/events/power.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
 
 #include <asm/alternative.h>
 #include <asm/compat.h>
@@ -322,6 +323,20 @@ void uao_thread_switch(struct task_struct *next)
 }
 
 /*
+ * We store our current task in sp_el0, which is clobbered by userspace. Keep a
+ * shadow copy so that we can restore this upon entry from userspace.
+ *
+ * This is *only* for exception entry from EL0, and is not valid until we
+ * __switch_to() a user task.
+ */
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, __entry_task);
+
+static void entry_task_switch(struct task_struct *next)
+{
+	__this_cpu_write(__entry_task, next);
+}
+
+/*
  * Thread switching.
  */
 struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
@@ -333,6 +348,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
 	tls_thread_switch(next);
 	hw_breakpoint_thread_switch(next);
 	contextidr_thread_switch(next);
+	entry_task_switch(next);
 	uao_thread_switch(next);
 
 	/*