[PATCH v3] powerpc/64s: support nospectre_v2 cmdline option

Christopher M. Riedl cmr at informatik.wtf
Tue May 7 22:43:55 AEST 2019


Add support for disabling the kernel implemented spectre v2 mitigation
(count cache flush on context switch) via the nospectre_v2 cmdline
option.

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>
---
v2->v3:
	Address mpe's nitpick

 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 b33bafb8fcea..7005c50a991b 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)
@@ -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) {
+		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
-- 
2.21.0



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