[PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/64s: Sanitise user registers on interrupt in pseries
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 13:12:47 AEDT 2022
On Mon Nov 7, 2022 at 1:32 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> Cause pseries platforms to default to zeroising all potentially user-defined
> registers when entering the kernel by means of any interrupt source,
> reducing user-influence of the kernel and the likelihood or producing
> speculation gadgets.
For POWERNV as well?
Thanks,
Nick
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Resubmitting patches as their own series after v6 partially merged:
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166488988686.779920.13794870102696416283.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au/t/
> ---
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 9d3d20c6f365..2eb328b25e49 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU
> config INTERRUPT_SANITIZE_REGISTERS
> bool "Clear gprs on interrupt arrival"
> depends on PPC64 && ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
> - default PPC_BOOK3E_64
> + default PPC_BOOK3E_64 || PPC_PSERIES
> help
> Reduce the influence of user register state on interrupt handlers and
> syscalls through clearing user state from registers before handling
> --
> 2.34.1
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