From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Subject: [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 2/2] arm64: errata: Fix KVM Spectre-v2 mitigation selection for Cortex-A57/A72
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:28:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221130182819.739068-3-james.morse@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221130182819.739068-1-james.morse@arm.com>
Both the Spectre-v2 and Spectre-BHB mitigations involve running a sequence
immediately after exiting a guest, before any branches. In the stable
kernels these sequences are built by copying templates into an empty vector
slot.
For Spectre-BHB, Cortex-A57 and A72 require the branchy loop with k=8.
If Spectre-v2 needs mitigating at the same time, a firmware call to EL3 is
needed. The work EL3 does at this point is also enough to mitigate
Spectre-BHB.
When enabling the Spectre-BHB mitigation, spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation()
should check if a slot has already been allocated for Spectre-v2, meaning
no work is needed for Spectre-BHB.
This check was missed in the earlier backport, add it.
Fixes: 9013fd4bc958 ("arm64: Mitigate spectre style branch history side channels")
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 2a7c05640b38..b18f307a3c59 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -1363,7 +1363,13 @@ void spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
} else if (spectre_bhb_loop_affected(SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU)) {
switch (spectre_bhb_loop_affected(SCOPE_SYSTEM)) {
case 8:
- kvm_setup_bhb_slot(__spectre_bhb_loop_k8_start);
+ /*
+ * A57/A72-r0 will already have selected the
+ * spectre-indirect vector, which is sufficient
+ * for BHB too.
+ */
+ if (!__this_cpu_read(bp_hardening_data.fn))
+ kvm_setup_bhb_slot(__spectre_bhb_loop_k8_start);
break;
case 24:
kvm_setup_bhb_slot(__spectre_bhb_loop_k24_start);
--
2.30.2
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-30 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-30 18:28 [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 0/2] arm64: errata: Spectre-BHB fixes James Morse
2022-11-30 18:28 ` [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 1/2] arm64: Fix panic() when Spectre-v2 causes Spectre-BHB to re-allocate KVM vectors James Morse
2022-12-03 13:55 ` Patch "arm64: Fix panic() when Spectre-v2 causes Spectre-BHB to re-allocate KVM vectors" has been added to the 5.4-stable tree gregkh
2022-11-30 18:28 ` James Morse [this message]
2022-12-03 13:55 ` Patch "arm64: errata: Fix KVM Spectre-v2 mitigation selection for Cortex-A57/A72" " gregkh
2022-12-03 13:32 ` [stable:PATCH v5.4.225 0/2] arm64: errata: Spectre-BHB fixes Greg KH
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