From 9f336a53266f43ae1002f4aaad5373944589c828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Getz Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:23:28 +0800 Subject: Blackfin arch: ensure that speculative loads of bad pointers don't cause us to do bad things. Fix/change formatting of a few more things. Signed-off-by: Robin Getz Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu --- arch/blackfin/kernel/fixed_code.S | 14 ++++++++++++++ arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/blackfin/kernel') diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/fixed_code.S b/arch/blackfin/kernel/fixed_code.S index d8b1ebc7099..90262691b11 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/fixed_code.S +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/fixed_code.S @@ -129,4 +129,18 @@ ENTRY(_atomic_xor32) rts; ENDPROC (_atomic_ior32) +.align 16 + /* + * safe_user_instruction + * Four NOPS are enough to allow the pipeline to speculativily load + * execute anything it wants. After that, things have gone bad, and + * we are stuck - so panic. Since we might be in user space, we can't + * call panic, so just cause a unhandled exception, this should cause + * a dump of the trace buffer so we can tell were we are, and a reboot + */ +ENTRY(_safe_user_instruction) + NOP; NOP; NOP; NOP; + EXCPT 0x4; +ENDPROC(_safe_user_instruction) + ENTRY(_fixed_code_end) diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c index fc22ec8c2f4..934234f4383 100644 --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c @@ -431,6 +431,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) != ATOMIC_AND32 - FIXED_CODE_START); BUG_ON((char *)&atomic_xor32 - (char *)&fixed_code_start != ATOMIC_XOR32 - FIXED_CODE_START); + BUG_ON((char *)&safe_user_instruction - (char *)&fixed_code_start + != SAFE_USER_INSTRUCTION - FIXED_CODE_START); init_exception_vectors(); bf53x_cache_init(); -- cgit v1.2.3