linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 149/151] powerpc/64s: support nospectre

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Message-Id: <20191127203047.641403632@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:32:12 +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, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr@...ormatik.wtf>,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 149/151] powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option

From: "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr@...ormatik.wtf>

commit d8f0e0b073e1ec52a05f0c2a56318b47387d2f10 upstream.

Add support for disabling the kernel implemented spectre v2 mitigation
(count cache flush on context switch) via the nospectre_v2 and
mitigations=off cmdline options.

Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr@...ormatik.wtf>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190524024647.381-1-cmr@informatik.wtf
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static enum count_cache_flush_type count
 bool barrier_nospec_enabled;
 static bool no_nospec;
 static bool btb_flush_enabled;
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
 static bool no_spectrev2;
 #endif
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static __init int barrier_nospec_debugfs
 device_initcall(barrier_nospec_debugfs_init);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64)
 static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
 {
 	no_spectrev2 = true;
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(ch
 	return 0;
 }
 early_param("nospectre_v2", handle_nospectre_v2);
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E || CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
 void setup_spectre_v2(void)
 {
 	if (no_spectrev2)
@@ -392,7 +395,17 @@ static void toggle_count_cache_flush(boo
 
 void setup_count_cache_flush(void)
 {
-	toggle_count_cache_flush(true);
+	bool enable = true;
+
+	if (no_spectrev2 || cpu_mitigations_off()) {
+		if (security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_BCCTRL_SERIALISED) ||
+		    security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_COUNT_CACHE_DISABLED))
+			pr_warn("Spectre v2 mitigations not under software control, can't disable\n");
+
+		enable = false;
+	}
+
+	toggle_count_cache_flush(enable);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS