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2012-04-28ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURWWill Deacon
TPIDRURW is a user read/write register forming part of the group of thread registers in more recent versions of the ARM architecture (~v6+). Currently, the kernel does not touch this register, which allows tasks to communicate covertly by reading and writing to the register without context-switching affecting its contents. This patch clears TPIDRURW when TPIDRURO is updated via the set_tls macro, which is called directly from __switch_to. Since the current behaviour makes the register useless to userspace as far as thread pointers are concerned, simply clearing the register (rather than saving and restoring it) will not cause any problems to userspace. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-02ARM: v6k: select TLS register code according to V6 variantsRussell King
If CONFIG_CPU_V6 is enabled, we may or may not have the TLS register. Use the conditional code which copes with this variability. Otherwise, if CONFIG_CPU_32v6K is set, we know we have the TLS register on all supported CPUs, so use it unconditionally. Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Tested-by: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com> Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-09ARM: 6207/1: Replace CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG with HWCAP_TLS and check for it on V6Tony Lindgren
The TLS register is only available on ARM1136 r1p0 and later. Set HWCAP_TLS flags if hardware TLS is available and test for it if CONFIG_CPU_32v6K is not set for V6. Note that we set the TLS instruction in __kuser_get_tls dynamically as suggested by Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>. Also the __switch_to code is optimized out in most cases as suggested by Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>