This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/fsl: Add nospectre_v2 command line argument
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-fsl-add-nospectre_v2-command-line-argument.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From foo@baz Fri Mar 29 16:04:51 CET 2019
From: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:26:12 +1100
Subject: powerpc/fsl: Add nospectre_v2 command line argument
To: sta...@vger.kernel.org, gre...@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linuxppc-...@ozlabs.org, diana.crac...@nxp.com, msucha...@suse.de,
christophe.le...@c-s.fr
Message-ID: <20190329112620.14489-25-...@ellerman.id.au>
From: Diana Craciun <diana.crac...@nxp.com>
commit f633a8ad636efb5d4bba1a047d4a0f1ef719aa06 upstream.
When the command line argument is present, the Spectre variant 2
mitigations are disabled.
Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.crac...@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h | 5 +++++
arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ void do_barrier_nospec_fixups_range(bool
static inline void do_barrier_nospec_fixups_range(bool enable, void *start,
void *end) { };
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+void setup_spectre_v2(void);
+#else
+static inline void setup_spectre_v2(void) {};
+#endif
void do_btb_flush_fixups(void);
#endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ 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
+static bool no_spectrev2;
+#endif
static void enable_barrier_nospec(bool enable)
{
@@ -101,6 +105,23 @@ static __init int barrier_nospec_debugfs
device_initcall(barrier_nospec_debugfs_init);
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
+static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
+{
+ no_spectrev2 = true;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospectre_v2", handle_nospectre_v2);
+void setup_spectre_v2(void)
+{
+ if (no_spectrev2)
+ do_btb_flush_fixups();
+ else
+ btb_flush_enabled = true;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
ssize_t cpu_show_meltdown(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from m...@ellerman.id.au are
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-emulate-sprn_bucsr-register.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-64bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-update-spectre-v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-macro-to-flush-the-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-security-fix-spectre_v2-reporting.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fix-the-flush-of-branch-predictor.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-enable-runtime-patching-if-nospectre_v2-boot-arg-is-used.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-fixed-warning-orphan-section-__btb_flush_fixup.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-nospectre_v2-command-line-argument.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-add-infrastructure-to-fixup-branch-predictor-flush.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-the-branch-predictor-at-each-kernel-entry-32-bit.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-fsl-flush-branch-predictor-when-entering-kvm.patch
