linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.15 064/202] [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch

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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:16:04 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.15 064/202] [Variant 2/Spectre-v2] arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context

4.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....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@....com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.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)