I've already stumbled over 2 cases where people got confused about how to disable kpti on AArch64. In both cases, they used existing x86_64 options and just applied that to an AArch64 system, expecting it to work. I think it makes a lot of sense to have compatible kernel command line parameters whenever we can have them be compatible. So this patch adds the pti= and no_pti kernel command line options, mapping them into the existing kpti= command line framework. It preserves the old syntax to maintain compatibility with older command lines. While at it, the patch also marks the respective options as dual-arch. Reported-by: Richard Brown <rbrown@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++--- arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 81d1d5a74728..4a1c6bcfcdb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3522,8 +3522,8 @@ pt. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. - pti= [X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and - kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature + pti= [X86_64,ARM64] Control Page Table Isolation of user + and kernel address spaces. Disabling this feature removes hardening, but improves performance of system calls and interrupts. @@ -3534,7 +3534,7 @@ Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto. - nopti [X86_64] + nopti [X86_64,ARM64] Equivalent to pti=off pty.legacy_count= diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c index af50064dea51..12bb3b0470dd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c @@ -978,13 +978,26 @@ static int __init parse_kpti(char *str) bool enabled; int ret = strtobool(str, &enabled); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (!strncmp(str, "auto", 4)) { + __kpti_forced = 0; + return 0; + } return ret; + } __kpti_forced = enabled ? 1 : -1; return 0; } early_param("kpti", parse_kpti); +early_param("pti", parse_kpti); + +static int __init handle_no_pti(char *p) +{ + __kpti_forced = -1; + return 0; +} +early_param("nopti", parse_no_pti); #endif /* CONFIG_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0 */ #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM -- 2.12.3