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Message-ID: <20201015160257.GA1450102@xps15>
Date:   Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:02:57 -0600
From:   Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
To:     Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Denis Nikitin <denik@...omium.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm4x: Add config to exclude kernel mode
 tracing

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 06:15:22PM +0530, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
> On production systems with ETMs enabled, it is preferred to
> exclude kernel mode(NS EL1) tracing for security concerns and
> support only userspace(NS EL0) tracing. So provide an option
> via kconfig to exclude kernel mode tracing if it is required.
> This config is disabled by default and would not affect the
> current configuration which has both kernel and userspace
> tracing enabled by default.
>

One requires root access (or be part of a special trace group) to be able to use
the cs_etm PMU.  With this kind of elevated access restricting tracing at EL1
provides little in terms of security.

Thanks,
Mathieu
 
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig                | 9 +++++++++
>  drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> index c1198245461d..52435de8824c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/Kconfig
> @@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ config CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
>  	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
>  	  module will be called coresight-etm4x.
>  
> +config CORESIGHT_ETM4X_EXCL_KERN
> +	bool "Coresight ETM 4.x exclude kernel mode tracing"
> +	depends on CORESIGHT_SOURCE_ETM4X
> +	help
> +	  This will exclude kernel mode(NS EL1) tracing if enabled. This option
> +	  will be useful to provide more flexible options on production systems
> +	  where only userspace(NS EL0) tracing might be preferred for security
> +	  reasons.
> +
>  config CORESIGHT_STM
>  	tristate "CoreSight System Trace Macrocell driver"
>  	depends on (ARM && !(CPU_32v3 || CPU_32v4 || CPU_32v4T)) || ARM64
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> index abd706b216ac..7e5669e5cd1f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm4x-core.c
> @@ -832,6 +832,9 @@ static u64 etm4_get_ns_access_type(struct etmv4_config *config)
>  {
>  	u64 access_type = 0;
>  
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CORESIGHT_ETM4X_EXCL_KERN))
> +		config->mode |= ETM_MODE_EXCL_KERN;
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * EXLEVEL_NS, bits[15:12]
>  	 * The Exception levels are:
> @@ -849,7 +852,8 @@ static u64 etm4_get_ns_access_type(struct etmv4_config *config)
>  		access_type = ETM_EXLEVEL_NS_HYP;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (config->mode & ETM_MODE_EXCL_USER)
> +	if (config->mode & ETM_MODE_EXCL_USER &&
> +	    !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CORESIGHT_ETM4X_EXCL_KERN))
>  		access_type |= ETM_EXLEVEL_NS_APP;
>  
>  	return access_type;
> 
> base-commit: 3477326277451000bc667dfcc4fd0774c039184c
> -- 
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