[PATCH 07/11] powerpc/fsl: Flush the branch predictor at each kernel entry (32 bit)

Diana Craciun diana.craciun at nxp.com
Thu Dec 13 01:03:06 AEDT 2018


In order to protect against speculation attacks on
indirect branches, the branch predictor is flushed at
kernel entry to protect for the following situations:
- userspace process attacking another userspace process
- userspace process attacking the kernel
Basically when the privillege level change (i.e.the kernel
is entered), the branch predictor state is flushed.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun at nxp.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h     |  6 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
index d0862a1..15ac510 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 	andi.	r11, r11, MSR_PR;	/* check whether user or kernel    */\
 	mr	r11, r1;						     \
 	beq	1f;							     \
+START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION					\
+	BTB_FLUSH(r11)						\
+END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION					\
 	/* if from user, start at top of this thread's kernel stack */       \
 	lwz	r11, THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r10);				     \
 	ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(r11, THREAD_SIZE);				     \
@@ -128,6 +131,9 @@
 	stw	r9,_CCR(r8);		/* save CR on stack		   */\
 	mfspr	r11,exc_level_srr1;	/* check whether user or kernel    */\
 	DO_KVM	BOOKE_INTERRUPT_##intno exc_level_srr1;		             \
+START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION								\
+	BTB_FLUSH(r10)									\
+END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION								\
 	andi.	r11,r11,MSR_PR;						     \
 	mfspr	r11,SPRN_SPRG_THREAD;	/* if from user, start at top of   */\
 	lwz	r11,THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r11); /* this thread's kernel stack */\
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
index e2750b8..2386ce2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_fsl_booke.S
@@ -453,6 +453,13 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_EMB_HV)
 	mfcr	r13
 	stw	r13, THREAD_NORMSAVE(3)(r10)
 	DO_KVM	BOOKE_INTERRUPT_DTLB_MISS SPRN_SRR1
+START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
+	mfspr r11, SPRN_SRR1
+	andi. r10,r11,MSR_PR
+	beq 1f
+	BTB_FLUSH(r10)
+1:
+END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
 	mfspr	r10, SPRN_DEAR		/* Get faulting address */
 
 	/* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the
@@ -547,6 +554,14 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_EMB_HV)
 	mfcr	r13
 	stw	r13, THREAD_NORMSAVE(3)(r10)
 	DO_KVM	BOOKE_INTERRUPT_ITLB_MISS SPRN_SRR1
+START_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
+	mfspr r11, SPRN_SRR1
+	andi. r10,r11,MSR_PR
+	beq 1f
+	BTB_FLUSH(r10)
+1:
+END_BTB_FLUSH_SECTION
+
 	mfspr	r10, SPRN_SRR0		/* Get faulting address */
 
 	/* If we are faulting a kernel address, we have to use the
-- 
2.5.5



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