[PATCH 2/2] arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for suspicious interrupts from EL0

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Feb 2 09:31:40 PST 2018


It is possible to take an IRQ from EL0 following a branch to a kernel
address in such a way that the IRQ is prioritised over the instruction
abort. Whilst an attacker would need to get the starts to align here,
it might be sufficient with enough calibration so perform BP hardening
in the rare case that we see a kernel address in the ELR when handling
an IRQ from EL0.

Reported-by: Dan Hettena <dhettena at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 5 +++++
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index 394b149825b6..9bba6990e9b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -827,6 +827,11 @@ el0_irq_naked:
 #endif
 
 	ct_user_exit
+#ifdef CONFIG_HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR
+	tbz	x22, #55, 1f
+	bl	do_el0_irq_bp_hardening
+1:
+#endif
 	irq_handler
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 445aa4475c67..3d2bcbfdb90b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -708,6 +708,12 @@ asmlinkage void __exception do_mem_abort(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
 	arm64_notify_die("", regs, &info, esr);
 }
 
+asmlinkage void __exception do_el0_irq_bp_hardening(void)
+{
+	/* PC has already been checked in entry.S */
+	arm64_apply_bp_hardening();
+}
+
 asmlinkage void __exception do_el0_ia_bp_hardening(unsigned long addr,
 						   unsigned int esr,
 						   struct pt_regs *regs)
-- 
2.1.4




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