[PATCH 0/3] ARM branch predictor hardening

[tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)]

* Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> [180106 04:14]:
> This small series implements some basic BP hardening by invalidating
> the BTB on CPUs that are known to be susceptible to aliasing attacks.
> 
> These patches are closely modelled against what we do on arm64,
> although simpler as we can rely on an architected instruction to
> perform the invalidation.
> 
> The first patch reuses the Cortex-A8 BTB invalidation in switch_mm and
> generalises it to be used on all affected CPUs. The second perform the
> same invalidation on fatal signal delivery. The last one nukes it on
> guest exit, and results in some major surgery (kudos to Dimitris
> Papastamos who came up with the magic vector decoding sequence).

So if a Cortex-A8 has bootloder set the IBE bit, and kernel has
ARM_ERRATA_430973 enabled, is Cortex-A8 already hardened then?

Regards,

Tony