Commit a8e4c0a9 authored Jan 19, 2018 by Marc Zyngier Committed by Catalin Marinas Jan 23, 2018

arm64: Move BP hardening to check_and_switch_context



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@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

parent e9eaa805

arch/arm64/mm/context.c

+3 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ void check_and_switch_context(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int cpu)
		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.
		@@ -249,8 +252,6 @@ asmlinkage void post_ttbr_update_workaround(void)
		"ic iallu; dsb nsh; isb",
		ARM64_WORKAROUND_CAVIUM_27456,
		CONFIG_CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456));

		arm64_apply_bp_hardening();
		}

		static int asids_init(void)