[PATCH 0/3] ARM branch predictor hardening

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Tony,

On 08/01/18 16:54, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> [180106 04:14]:
>> This small series implements some basic BP hardening by invalidating
>> the BTB on CPUs that are known to be susceptible to aliasing attacks.
>>
>> These patches are closely modelled against what we do on arm64,
>> although simpler as we can rely on an architected instruction to
>> perform the invalidation.
>>
>> The first patch reuses the Cortex-A8 BTB invalidation in switch_mm and
>> generalises it to be used on all affected CPUs. The second perform the
>> same invalidation on fatal signal delivery. The last one nukes it on
>> guest exit, and results in some major surgery (kudos to Dimitris
>> Papastamos who came up with the magic vector decoding sequence).
> 
> So if a Cortex-A8 has bootloder set the IBE bit, and kernel has
> ARM_ERRATA_430973 enabled, is Cortex-A8 already hardened then?

Almost. See the extra BTB invalidation in fault.c.

Thanks,

	M.
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