[PATCH 1/2] arm64: entry: Apply BP hardening for high-priority synchronous exceptions

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Fri Feb 2 09:48:41 PST 2018


On 02/02/18 17:31, Will Deacon wrote:
> Software-step and PC alignment fault exceptions have higher priority than
> instruction abort exceptions, so apply the BP hardening hooks there too
> if the user PC appears to reside in kernel space.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Hettena <dhettena at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

	M.
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