[PATCH stable v4.9 v2] arm64: entry: Place an SB sequence following an ERET instruction

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 15:50:23 EDT 2020


From: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

commit 679db70801da9fda91d26caf13bf5b5ccc74e8e8 upstream

Some CPUs can speculate past an ERET instruction and potentially perform
speculative accesses to memory before processing the exception return.
Since the register state is often controlled by a lower privilege level
at the point of an ERET, this could potentially be used as part of a
side-channel attack.

This patch emits an SB sequence after each ERET so that speculation is
held up on exception return.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
[florian: Adjust hyp-entry.S to account for the label
 added change to hyp/entry.S]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:

- added missing hunk in hyp/entry.S per Will's feedback

 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S      | 2 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S     | 2 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
index ca978d7d98eb..3408c782702c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ alternative_insn eret, nop, ARM64_UNMAP_KERNEL_AT_EL0
 	.else
 	eret
 	.endif
+	sb
 	.endm
 
 	.macro	get_thread_info, rd
@@ -945,6 +946,7 @@ __ni_sys_trace:
 	mrs	x30, far_el1
 	.endif
 	eret
+	sb
 	.endm
 
 	.align	11
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
index a360ac6e89e9..93704e6894d2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ ENTRY(__guest_enter)
 
 	// Do not touch any register after this!
 	eret
+	sb
 ENDPROC(__guest_enter)
 
 ENTRY(__guest_exit)
@@ -195,4 +196,5 @@ alternative_endif
 	ldp	x0, x1, [sp], #16
 
 	eret
+	sb
 ENDPROC(__fpsimd_guest_restore)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
index bf4988f9dae8..3675e7f0ab72 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp-entry.S
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ el1_sync:				// Guest trapped into EL2
 	do_el2_call
 
 2:	eret
+	sb
 
 el1_hvc_guest:
 	/*
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ wa_epilogue:
 	mov	x0, xzr
 	add	sp, sp, #16
 	eret
+	sb
 
 el1_trap:
 	get_vcpu_ptr	x1, x0
@@ -198,6 +200,7 @@ el2_error:
 	b.ne	__hyp_panic
 	mov	x0, #(1 << ARM_EXIT_WITH_SERROR_BIT)
 	eret
+	sb
 
 ENTRY(__hyp_do_panic)
 	mov	lr, #(PSR_F_BIT | PSR_I_BIT | PSR_A_BIT | PSR_D_BIT |\
@@ -206,6 +209,7 @@ ENTRY(__hyp_do_panic)
 	ldr	lr, =panic
 	msr	elr_el2, lr
 	eret
+	sb
 ENDPROC(__hyp_do_panic)
 
 ENTRY(__hyp_panic)
-- 
2.17.1




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