[bionic][PATCH 1/3] powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option
Benjamin M Romer
benjamin.romer at canonical.com
Thu Nov 28 15:05:22 UTC 2019
From: "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr at informatik.wtf>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853142
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 at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Christopher M. Riedl <cmr at informatik.wtf>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190524024647.381-1-cmr@informatik.wtf
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
CVE-2019-18660
Signed-off-by: Benjamin M Romer <benjamin.romer at canonical.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
index 70568ccbd9fd..8cc8b0de12d2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static enum count_cache_flush_type count_cache_flush_type = COUNT_CACHE_FLUSH_NO
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
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static __init int barrier_nospec_debugfs_init(void)
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;
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
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 || cpu_mitigations_off())
@@ -391,7 +394,17 @@ static void toggle_count_cache_flush(bool enable)
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
--
2.20.1
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