arm64: errata: Fix KVM Spectre-v2 mitigation selection for Cortex-A57/A72
Both the Spectre-v2 and Spectre-BHB mitigations involve running a sequence immediately after exiting a guest, before any branches. In the stable kernels these sequences are built by copying templates into an empty vector slot. For Spectre-BHB, Cortex-A57 and A72 require the branchy loop with k=8. If Spectre-v2 needs mitigating at the same time, a firmware call to EL3 is needed. The work EL3 does at this point is also enough to mitigate Spectre-BHB. When enabling the Spectre-BHB mitigation, spectre_bhb_enable_mitigation() should check if a slot has already been allocated for Spectre-v2, meaning no work is needed for Spectre-BHB. This check was missed in the earlier backport, add it. Fixes: 4dd8aae5 ("arm64: Mitigate spectre style branch history side channels") Signed-off-by:James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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