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Commit 5430a021 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Sasha Levin
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arm64: errata: add workaround for cortex-a53 erratum #845719



When running a compat (AArch32) userspace on Cortex-A53, a load at EL0
from a virtual address that matches the bottom 32 bits of the virtual
address used by a recent load at (AArch64) EL1 might return incorrect
data.

This patch works around the issue by writing to the contextidr_el1
register on the exception return path when returning to a 32-bit task.
This workaround is patched in at runtime based on the MIDR value of the
processor.

Reviewed-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18.y
(cherry picked from commit 905e8c5dcaa147163672b06fe9dcb5abaacbc711)
Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
parent 62ef31e1
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