kernel_optimize_test/include
Gerald Schaefer c1821c2e97 [S390] noexec protection
This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does
not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a
different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing
mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data.

As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate
page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses
(storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is
used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the
data addresses.
The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer
in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that
contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really
private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU
list).
Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into
both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of
a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the
data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a
page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV
with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn)
and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the
kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return
mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the
exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored
behind the signal stack frame.

This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space
mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing
modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works
for user space.
After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs
instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new
mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows
to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the
page tables need to be walked manually.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05 21:18:17 +01:00
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acpi ACPI: increase ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT for larger systems 2007-01-02 00:18:52 -05:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] alpha: fix epoll syscall enumerations 2007-02-03 11:26:06 -08:00
asm-arm [ARM] 4111/1: Allow VFP to work with thread migration on SMP 2007-01-25 16:35:29 +00:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-avr32 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] fix frv headers_check 2007-02-01 16:17:05 -08:00
asm-generic Fix Maple PATA IRQ assignment. 2007-01-26 17:27:40 -05:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMP 2007-01-26 13:50:58 -08:00
asm-ia64 ia64: add pci_get_legacy_ide_irq() 2007-01-27 13:46:54 +01:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68k: uaccess.h needs sched.h 2007-01-30 08:26:45 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-mips [PATCH] mm: mremap correct rmap accounting 2007-01-30 08:33:32 -08:00
asm-parisc [ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page() 2007-01-08 19:49:54 +00:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] dma-mapping.h stubs fix 2007-01-30 08:39:21 -08:00
asm-ppc Merge branch 'for_paulus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc 2006-12-11 16:31:42 +11:00
asm-s390 [S390] noexec protection 2007-02-05 21:18:17 +01:00
asm-sh [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-sparc [SPARC32]: Fix over-optimization by GCC near ip_fast_csum. 2007-02-01 20:24:35 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release. 2006-12-31 14:06:05 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml-i386: fix build breakage with CONFIG_HIGHMEM 2007-02-01 16:17:06 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork 2006-12-13 09:27:08 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86-64: define dma noncoherent API functions 2007-02-03 11:26:06 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] FD_ZERO build fix 2007-01-11 18:18:22 -08:00
crypto
keys
linux libata: Fix ata_busy_wait() kernel docs 2007-02-02 11:52:05 -05:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (5001): Add two required headers on kernel 2.6.20-rc1 2006-12-27 14:20:46 -02:00
mtd
net [TCP]: Restore SKB socket owner setting in tcp_transmit_skb(). 2007-01-26 01:04:55 -08:00
pcmcia
rdma IB: Fix ib_dma_alloc_coherent() wrapper 2006-12-15 13:57:26 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi
sound [PATCH] ALSA: Fix sysfs breakage 2007-01-29 14:32:53 -08:00
video [PATCH] sstfb: add sysfs interface 2006-12-13 09:05:55 -08:00
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