Patch "[Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context

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-move-bp-hardening-to-check_and_switch_context.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Tue Feb 13 17:25:10 CET 2018
From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:42:09 +0000
Subject: [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context

From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>


Commit a8e4c0a919ae upstream.

We call arm64_apply_bp_hardening() from post_ttbr_update_workaround,
which has the unexpected consequence of being triggered on every
exception return to userspace when ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN is selected,
even if no context switch actually occured.

This is a bit suboptimal, and it would be more logical to only
invalidate the branch predictor when we actually switch to
a different mm.

In order to solve this, move the call to arm64_apply_bp_hardening()
into check_and_switch_context(), where we're guaranteed to pick
a different mm context.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/context.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/context.c
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ void check_and_switch_context(struct mm_
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_asid_lock, flags);
 
 switch_mm_fastpath:
+
+	arm64_apply_bp_hardening();
+
 	/*
 	 * Defer TTBR0_EL1 setting for user threads to uaccess_enable() when
 	 * emulating PAN.
@@ -246,8 +249,6 @@ asmlinkage void post_ttbr_update_workaro
 			"ic iallu; dsb nsh; isb",
 			ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456,
 			CONFIG_CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456));
-
-	arm64_apply_bp_hardening();
 }
 
 static int asids_init(void)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.zyngier@arm.com are

queue-4.15/arm-arm64-smccc-make-function-identifiers-an-unsigned-quantity.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-move-bp-hardening-to-check_and_switch_context.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-advertise-smccc-v1.1.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-move-post_ttbr_update_workaround-to-c-code.patch
queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-psci-conduit.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-force-kpti-to-be-disabled-on-cavium-thunderx.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-entry-apply-bp-hardening-for-high-priority-synchronous-exceptions.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-fix-the-interaction-between-asid-switching-and-software-pan.patch
queue-4.15/firmware-psci-expose-smccc-version-through-psci_ops.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-implement-branch-predictor-hardening-for-affected-cortex-a-cpus.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-add-psci_version-helper.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kill-psci_get_version-as-a-variant-2-workaround.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-entry-apply-bp-hardening-for-suspicious-interrupts-from-el0.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-capabilities-handle-duplicate-entries-for-a-capability.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-add-arm_smccc_arch_workaround_1-bp-hardening-support.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-turn-kvm_psci_version-into-a-static-inline.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-implement-psci-1.0-support.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kvm-add-smccc_arch_workaround_1-fast-handling.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kvm-report-smccc_arch_workaround_1-bp-hardening-support.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-smccc-implement-smccc-v1.1-inline-primitive.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-idmap-use-awx-flags-for-.idmap.text-.pushsection-directives.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kvm-make-psci_version-a-fast-path.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-cpufeature-__this_cpu_has_cap-shouldn-t-stop-early.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kpti-add-enable-callback-to-remap-swapper-using-ng-mappings.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-consolidate-the-psci-include-files.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-add-skeleton-to-harden-the-branch-predictor-against-aliasing-attacks.patch
queue-4.15/arm-arm64-kvm-add-smccc-accessors-to-psci-code.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kvm-use-per-cpu-vector-when-bp-hardening-is-enabled.patch
queue-4.15/arm64-kvm-increment-pc-after-handling-an-smc-trap.patch