From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43302 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965057AbeBMQbz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:31:55 -0500 Subject: Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree To: jnair@caviumnetworks.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, will.deacon@arm.com Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:31:25 +0100 Message-ID: <151853948510336@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2 to the 4.15-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-branch-predictor-hardening-for-cavium-thunderx2.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Tue Feb 13 17:25:10 CET 2018 From: Jayachandran C Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:22:47 -0800 Subject: [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Branch predictor hardening for Cavium ThunderX2 From: Jayachandran C Commit f3d795d9b360 upstream. Use PSCI based mitigation for speculative execution attacks targeting the branch predictor. We use the same mechanism as the one used for Cortex-A CPUs, we expect the PSCI version call to have a side effect of clearing the BTBs. Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c @@ -359,6 +359,16 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm6 .capability = ARM64_HARDEN_BP_POST_GUEST_EXIT, MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_QCOM_FALKOR_V1), }, + { + .capability = ARM64_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR, + MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_BRCM_VULCAN), + .enable = enable_psci_bp_hardening, + }, + { + .capability = ARM64_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR, + MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CAVIUM_THUNDERX2), + .enable = enable_psci_bp_hardening, + }, #endif { } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jnair@caviumnetworks.com are queue-4.15/arm64-turn-on-kpti-only-on-cpus-that-need-it.patch queue-4.15/arm64-branch-predictor-hardening-for-cavium-thunderx2.patch queue-4.15/arm64-cputype-add-midr-values-for-cavium-thunderx2-cpus.patch