arm64: Mitigate spectre style branch history side channels
commit 558c303c9734af5a813739cd284879227f7297d2 upstream.
Speculation attacks against some high-performance processors can
make use of branch history to influence future speculation.
When taking an exception from user-space, a sequence of branches
or a firmware call overwrites or invalidates the branch history.
The sequence of branches is added to the vectors, and should appear
before the first indirect branch. For systems using KPTI the sequence
is added to the kpti trampoline where it has a free register as the exit
from the trampoline is via a 'ret'. For systems not using KPTI, the same
register tricks are used to free up a register in the vectors.
For the firmware call, arch-workaround-3 clobbers 4 registers, so
there is no choice but to save them to the EL1 stack. This only happens
for entry from EL0 so if we take an exception due to the stack access,
it will not become re-entrant.
For KVM, the existing branch-predictor-hardening vectors are used.
When a spectre version of these vectors is in use, the firmware call
is sufficient to mitigate against Spectre-BHB. For the non-spectre
versions the sequence of branches is added to the indirect vector.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # <v5.17.x 72bb9dcb6c33c arm64: Add Cortex-X2 CPU part definition
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # <v5.16.x 2d0d656700d67 arm64: Add Neoverse-N2, Cortex-A710 CPU part definition
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # <v5.10.x 8a6b88e66233f arm64: Add part number for Arm Cortex-A77
[ modified for stable, moved code to cpu_errata.c removed bitmap of
mitigations, use kvm template infrastructure ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Git-commit: c20d551744797000c4af993f7d59ef8c69732949
Git-repo: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/
Change-Id: Ib5f1191b3e81b68edbcd2a0ba4f45e0c1041ad05
Signed-off-by: Kishor Krishna Bhat <quic_kishkris@quicinc.com>
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