History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 97228ca3 19-Jun-2023 Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Expose HASHKEYR register to ptrace

The HASHKEYR register contains a secret per-process key to enable unique
hashes per process. In general it should not be exposed to userspace
at all and a regular process has no need to know its key.

However, checkpoint restore in userspace (CRIU) functionality requires
that a process be able to set the HASHKEYR of another process, otherwise
existing hashes on the stack would be invalidated by a new random key.

Exposing HASHKEYR in this way also makes it appear in core dumps, which
is a security concern. Multiple threads may share a key, for example
just after a fork() call, where the kernel cannot know if the child is
going to return back along the parent's stack. If such a thread is
coerced into making a core dump, then the HASHKEYR value will be
readable and able to be used against all other threads sharing that key,
effectively undoing any protection offered by hashst/hashchk.

Therefore we expose HASHKEYR to ptrace when CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is
enabled, providing a choice of increased security or migratable ROP
protected processes. This is similar to how ARM exposes its PAC keys.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230616034846.311705-8-bgray@linux.ibm.com


# 884ad5c5 19-Jun-2023 Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Expose DEXCR and HDEXCR registers to ptrace

The DEXCR register is of interest when ptracing processes. Currently it
is static, but eventually will be dynamically controllable by a process.
If a process can control its own, then it is useful for it to be
ptrace-able to (e.g., for checkpoint-restore functionality).

It is also relevant to core dumps (the NPHIE aspect in particular),
which use the ptrace mechanism (or is it the other way around?) to
decide what to dump. The HDEXCR is useful here too, as the NPHIE aspect
may be set in the HDEXCR without being set in the DEXCR. Although the
HDEXCR is per-cpu and we don't track it in the task struct (it's useless
in normal operation), it would be difficult to imagine why a hypervisor
would set it to different values within a guest. A hypervisor cannot
safely set NPHIE differently at least, as that would break programs.

Expose a read-only view of the userspace DEXCR and HDEXCR to ptrace.
The HDEXCR is always readonly, and is useful for diagnosing the core
dumps (as the HDEXCR may set NPHIE without the DEXCR setting it).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
[mpe: Use lower_32_bits() rather than open coding]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230616034846.311705-7-bgray@linux.ibm.com


# 77e69ee7 07-Apr-2023 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

powerpc/64: modules support building with PCREL addresing

Build modules using PCREL addressing when CONFIG_PPC_KERNEL_PCREL=y.

- The module loader must handle several new relocation types:

* R_PPC64_REL24_NOTOC is a function call handled like R_PPC_REL24, but
does not restore r2 upon return. The external function call stub is
changed to use pcrel addressing to load the function pointer rather
than based on the module TOC.

* R_PPC64_GOT_PCREL34 is a reference to external data. A GOT table
must be built by hand, because the linker adds this during the final
link (which is not done for kernel modules). The GOT table is built
similarly to the way the external function call stub table is. This
section is called .mygot because .got has a special meaning for the
linker and can become upset.

* R_PPC64_PCREL34 is used for local data addressing, but there is a
special case where the percpu section is moved at load-time to the
percpu area which is out of range of this relocation. This requires
the PCREL34 relocations are converted to use GOT_PCREL34 addressing.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Some coding style & formatting fixups]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20230408021752.862660-7-npiggin@gmail.com


# 0a9c5ae2 15-Feb-2022 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc: Remove 'struct ppc64_opd_entry'

'struct ppc64_opd_entry' doesn't belong to uapi/asm/elf.h

It was initially in module_64.c and commit 2d291e902791 ("Fix compile
failure with non modular builds") moved it into asm/elf.h

But it was by mistake added outside of __KERNEL__ section,
therefore commit c3617f72036c ("UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate
arch/powerpc/include/asm") moved it to uapi/asm/elf.h

Now that it is not used anymore by the kernel, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c309ccee65ec2e3802df7a7fe761d0a298584809.1644928018.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# c5cc1f4d 18-Jan-2018 Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Add memory protection key regset

The AMR/IAMR/UAMOR are part of the program context.
Allow it to be accessed via ptrace and through core files.

Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# e2be04c7 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 2a196e24 08-Jan-2017 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

powerpc: Move ARCH_DLINFO out of uapi

It's an kernel private macro, it doesn't belong there

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# a67ae758 27-Jul-2016 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for Performance Monitor registers

This patch enables support for Performance monitor registers related
ELF core note NT_PPC_PMU based ptrace requests through
PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET calls. This is achieved
through adding one new register sets REGSET_PMU in powerpc
corresponding to the ELF core note sections added in this
regard. It also implements the get, set and active functions
for this new register sets added.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# cf89d4e1 27-Jul-2016 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for EBB registers

This patch enables support for EBB state registers related
ELF core note NT_PPC_EBB based ptrace requests through
PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET calls. This is achieved
through adding one new register sets REGSET_EBB in powerpc
corresponding to the ELF core note sections added in this
regard. It also implements the get, set and active functions
for this new register sets added.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 08e1c01d 27-Jul-2016 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for TM SPR state

This patch enables support for TM SPR state related ELF core
note NT_PPC_TM_SPR based ptrace requests through PTRACE_GETREGSET,
PTRACE_SETREGSET calls. This is achieved through adding a register
set REGSET_TM_SPR in powerpc corresponding to the ELF core note
section added. It implements the get, set and active functions for
this new register set added.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 9d3918f7 27-Jul-2016 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVSX

This patch enables support for TM checkpointed VSX register
set ELF core note NT_PPC_CVSX based ptrace requests through
PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET calls. This is achieved
through adding a register set REGSET_CVSX in powerpc
corresponding to the ELF core note section added. It
implements the get, set and active functions for this new
register set added.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 8c13f599 27-Jul-2016 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

powerpc/ptrace: Enable support for NT_PPC_CVMX

This patch enables support for TM checkpointed VMX register
set ELF core note NT_PPC_CVMX based ptrace requests through
PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET calls. This is achieved
through adding a register set REGSET_CVMX in powerpc
corresponding to the ELF core note section added. It
implements the get, set and active functions for this new
register set added.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# a61674bd 12-Jan-2016 Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>

powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations

GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le. This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
addi r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

.quad .TOC.-func
func:
.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
ld r2, -8(r12)
add r2, r2, r12
.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too. This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 0906584a 18-Mar-2014 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

powerpc: Handle new ELFv2 module relocations

The new ELF ABI tends to use R_PPC64_REL16_LO and R_PPC64_REL16_HA
relocations (PC-relative), so implement them.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


# d247da0a 18-Mar-2014 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

powerpc: modules implement R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocation.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


# 8bd0b119 06-Aug-2013 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

powerpc: Fix little endian coredumps

We need to set ELF_DATA correctly on LE coredumps.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# 01b0e07e 06-Aug-2013 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

powerpc: Simplify logic in include/uapi/asm/elf.h

Simplify things by putting all the 32bit and 64bit defines
together instead of in two spots.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>


# c3617f72 09-Oct-2012 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>