From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
Rouven Czerwinski <r.czerwinski@pengutronix.de>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Revert "ARM: mmu: use client domain permissions to support ARMv7 eXecute Never"
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:14:01 +0200
Message-ID: <aa1fb3a8-6d97-1c3f-ec7e-82489c8ceb0a@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02b09328-e300-f36e-4cc4-daa7afb47ad5@axentia.se>
Hi Peter,
On 19.09.21 09:50, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2021-09-19 09:06, Rouven Czerwinski wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> while this may break for your board, it fundamentally introduces the
>> possibility to speculate out of the RAM area on speculation happy
>
> I'm aware of that. For me, speculation is not an issue since *any*
> rogue code running on the embedded device in question is a major fail.
We have seen Cortex-A7 CPUs speculatively executing I/O memory. That's
why we mar everything eXecute-Never except for known memory banks and
expect board code to mark any further regions that are safe to execute
manually.
> Also, from the cover letter:
>
> "I'm going to follow up with patches. I very much realize that
> these patches are most likely not acceptable as-is, but I do
> include them since they are probably the best description of
> where the problems are."
>
>> processors. Are you calling into SAMA5D3 ROM code somewhere? If so an
>
> *I* am not calling anything. Maybe the board code for sama5d3xek is,
> but I have no idea as it's not "my" code. How can I figure out if it
> does?
If you don't revert this patch. Do you get any output at all?
If not, enable DEBUG_LL and see how far you get before hanging.
Cheers,
Ahad
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>> exception can be added similar to the handling for the HAB code
>> (arch/arm/cpu/mmu_early.c):
>>
>> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HABV4) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_IMX6))
>> map_region(0x0, SZ_1M, PMD_SECT_DEF_CACHED);
>>
>> which allows calls into the NXP boot ROM to retrieve the HAB status.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-20 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 22:37 at91 sama5d3 "regressions" Peter Rosin
2021-09-17 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] common.h: reintroduce region_overlap() as, old_region_overlap() Peter Rosin
2021-09-17 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] ARM: copy data if there is a region overlap Peter Rosin
2021-09-17 22:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] Revert "ARM: mmu: use client domain permissions to support ARMv7 eXecute Never" Peter Rosin
2021-09-19 7:06 ` Rouven Czerwinski
2021-09-19 7:50 ` Peter Rosin
2021-09-19 20:33 ` Peter Rosin
2021-09-20 9:14 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2021-09-20 10:22 ` Peter Rosin
2021-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] lds: the RO_DATA_SECTION macro does not work on my SAMA5D3 board Peter Rosin
2021-09-17 23:57 ` at91 sama5d3 "regressions" Peter Rosin
2021-09-19 6:32 ` Peter Rosin
2021-09-22 7:06 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-09-22 7:41 ` Peter Rosin
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