[PATCH stable 4.19] arm64: errata: Remove AES hwcap for COMPAT tasks

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Oct 26 10:02:55 PDT 2022


On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 09:51:20AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/26/2022 9:49 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 04:01:07PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> > > 
> > > commit 44b3834b2eed595af07021b1c64e6f9bc396398b upstream
> > > 
> > > Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 have an erratum where an interrupt that
> > > occurs between a pair of AES instructions in aarch32 mode may corrupt
> > > the ELR. The task will subsequently produce the wrong AES result.
> > > 
> > > The AES instructions are part of the cryptographic extensions, which are
> > > optional. User-space software will detect the support for these
> > > instructions from the hwcaps. If the platform doesn't support these
> > > instructions a software implementation should be used.
> > > 
> > > Remove the hwcap bits on affected parts to indicate user-space should
> > > not use the AES instructions.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714161523.279570-3-james.morse@arm.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> > > [florian: resolved conflicts in arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps and cpu_errata.c]
> > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> > > Change-Id: I651a0db2e9d2f304d210ae979ae586e7dcc9744d
> > 
> > No need for Change-Id: in upstream patches :)
> 
> Meh, the perils of working with Gerrit in the same tree.. do you need me to
> resubmit or can you strip those when you apply the patches?

I stripped them all, no worries.



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