4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com
From: Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com
commit f3d795d9b360523beca6d13ba64c2c532f601149 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 will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C jnair@caviumnetworks.com Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com [v4.9 backport] Tested-by: Greg Hackmann ghackmann@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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 @@ -252,6 +252,16 @@ const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities arm6 MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A75), .enable = enable_psci_bp_hardening, }, + { + .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 { }