[PATCH v3 5/6] arm: Invalidate icache on prefetch abort outside of user mapping on Cortex-A15

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Jan 25 07:21:38 PST 2018


In order to prevent aliasing attacks on the branch predictor,
invalidate the icache on Cortex-A15, which has the side effect
of invalidating the BTB. This requires ACTLR[0] to be set to 1
(secure operation).

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h | 1 +
 arch/arm/mm/fault.c         | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h
index 9e900ae855aa..07e27f212dc7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 #define write_sysreg(v, ...)		__write_sysreg(v, __VA_ARGS__)
 
 #define BPIALL				__ACCESS_CP15(c7, 0, c5, 6)
+#define ICIALLU				__ACCESS_CP15(c7, 0, c5, 0)
 
 extern unsigned long cr_alignment;	/* defined in entry-armv.S */
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
index d400d1c5a409..cda1023e3f67 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ do_pabt_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A17:
 			write_sysreg(0, BPIALL);
 			break;
+
+		case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A15:
+			write_sysreg(0, ICIALLU);
+			break;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.14.2




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