Patch "arm64: Always enable ssb vulnerability detection" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    arm64: Always enable ssb vulnerability detection

to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm64-always-enable-ssb-vulnerability-detection.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From foo@baz Wed 09 Oct 2019 10:02:11 AM CEST
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2019 17:39:23 +0200
Subject: arm64: Always enable ssb vulnerability detection
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20191008153930.15386-10-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>

[ Upstream commit d42281b6e49510f078ace15a8ea10f71e6262581 ]

Ensure we are always able to detect whether or not the CPU is affected
by SSB, so that we can later advertise this to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
[will: Use IS_ENABLED instead of #ifdef]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h |    4 ----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c      |    9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h
@@ -525,11 +525,7 @@ static inline int arm64_get_ssbd_state(v
 #endif
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD
 void arm64_set_ssbd_mitigation(bool state);
-#else
-static inline void arm64_set_ssbd_mitigation(bool state) {}
-#endif
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
 
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -239,7 +239,6 @@ enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const str
 }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD
 DEFINE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(u64, arm64_ssbd_callback_required);
 
 int ssbd_state __read_mostly = ARM64_SSBD_KERNEL;
@@ -312,6 +311,11 @@ void __init arm64_enable_wa2_handling(st
 
 void arm64_set_ssbd_mitigation(bool state)
 {
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD)) {
+		pr_info_once("SSBD disabled by kernel configuration\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (this_cpu_has_cap(ARM64_SSBS)) {
 		if (state)
 			asm volatile(SET_PSTATE_SSBS(0));
@@ -431,7 +435,6 @@ out_printmsg:
 
 	return required;
 }
-#endif	/* CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_1463225
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, __in_cortex_a76_erratum_1463225_wa);
@@ -710,14 +713,12 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm6
 		ERRATA_MIDR_RANGE_LIST(arm64_harden_el2_vectors),
 	},
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SSBD
 	{
 		.desc = "Speculative Store Bypass Disable",
 		.capability = ARM64_SSBD,
 		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_LOCAL_CPU_ERRATUM,
 		.matches = has_ssbd_mitigation,
 	},
-#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ERRATUM_1463225
 	{
 		.desc = "ARM erratum 1463225",


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are

queue-4.19/arm64-add-sysfs-vulnerability-show-for-meltdown.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-force-ssbs-on-context-switch.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-enable-generic-cpu-vulnerabilites-support.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-provide-a-command-line-to-disable-spectre_v2-mitigation.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-always-enable-spectre-v2-vulnerability-detection.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-docs-document-ssbs-hwcap.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-add-sysfs-vulnerability-show-for-spectre-v1.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-add-sysfs-vulnerability-show-for-speculative-store-bypass.patch
queue-4.19/kvm-arm64-set-sctlr_el2.dssbs-if-ssbd-is-forcefully-disabled-and-vhe.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-always-enable-ssb-vulnerability-detection.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-advertise-mitigation-of-spectre-v2-or-lack-thereof.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-ssbs-don-t-treat-cpus-with-ssbs-as-unaffected-by-ssb.patch
queue-4.19/crypto-skcipher-unmap-pages-after-an-external-error.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-cpufeature-detect-ssbs-and-advertise-to-userspace.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-ssbd-add-support-for-pstate.ssbs-rather-than-trapping-to-el3.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-fix-ssbs-sanitization.patch
queue-4.19/arm64-add-sysfs-vulnerability-show-for-spectre-v2.patch

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