Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: Set PXN/UXN attributes for uncached mem

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On 3/31/20 10:01 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The attributes should be set to avoid speculative access to memory-mapped
> peripherals.
> 
> The patch has been tested with:
> 
> noinline unsigned long nox(void)
> {
> 	return get_pc();
> }
> 
> static void xn_test(void)
> {
> 	void *adr = (void *)SOME_SRAM_ADDRESS;
> 	unsigned long ret;
> 	unsigned long (*fn)(void) = adr;
> 
> 	memcpy(adr, nox, 0x1000);
> 
> 	sync_caches_for_execution();
> 
> 	ret = fn();
> 	printf("pc: 0x%08lx\n", ret);
> }
> 
> Without this patch nox() gets executed in SRAM, with it runs into a
> abort as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.h b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.h
> index a2a5477569..f5b7624037 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/mmu_64.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
>  			 PTE_BLOCK_AF)
>  #define UNCACHED_MEM    (PTE_BLOCK_MEMTYPE(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE) | \
>  			 PTE_BLOCK_OUTER_SHARE | \
> -			 PTE_BLOCK_AF)
> +			 PTE_BLOCK_AF | \
> +			 PTE_BLOCK_UXN)

Don't we need PXN in EL1?
The commit message also speaks of PXN.

Cheers
Ahmad

>  
>  /*
>   * Do it the simple way for now and invalidate the entire tlb
> 

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