[PATCH] arm64: errata: Add missing sentinels to Spectre-BHB MIDR arrays
Lee Jones
lee at kernel.org
Thu May 1 04:33:39 PDT 2025
On Thu, 01 May 2025, Will Deacon wrote:
> Commit a5951389e58d ("arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the
> spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists") added some additional CPUs to the
> Spectre-BHB workaround, including some new arrays for designs that
> require new 'k' values for the workaround to be effective.
>
> Unfortunately, the new arrays omitted the sentinel entry and so
> is_midr_in_range_list() will walk off the end when it doesn't find a
> match. With UBSAN enabled, this leads to a crash during boot when
> is_midr_in_range_list() is inlined (which was more common prior to
> c8c2647e69be ("arm64: Make _midr_in_range_list() an exported
> function")):
>
> | Internal error: aarch64 BRK: 00000000f2000001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> | pstate: 804000c5 (Nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
> | pc : spectre_bhb_loop_affected+0x28/0x30
> | lr : is_spectre_bhb_affected+0x170/0x190
> | [...]
> | Call trace:
> | spectre_bhb_loop_affected+0x28/0x30
> | update_cpu_capabilities+0xc0/0x184
> | init_cpu_features+0x188/0x1a4
> | cpuinfo_store_boot_cpu+0x4c/0x60
> | smp_prepare_boot_cpu+0x38/0x54
> | start_kernel+0x8c/0x478
> | __primary_switched+0xc8/0xd4
> | Code: 6b09011f 54000061 52801080 d65f03c0 (d4200020)
> | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> | Kernel panic - not syncing: aarch64 BRK: Fatal exception
>
> Add the missing sentinel entries.
>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee at kernel.org>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> Cc: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi at huawei.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Fixes: a5951389e58d ("arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists")
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Nice catch!
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee at kernel.org>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> index b198dde79e59..b607f6dfc5e6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/proton-pack.c
> @@ -879,10 +879,12 @@ static u8 spectre_bhb_loop_affected(void)
> static const struct midr_range spectre_bhb_k132_list[] = {
> MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_X3),
> MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_NEOVERSE_V2),
> + {},
> };
> static const struct midr_range spectre_bhb_k38_list[] = {
> MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A715),
> MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A720),
> + {},
> };
> static const struct midr_range spectre_bhb_k32_list[] = {
> MIDR_ALL_VERSIONS(MIDR_CORTEX_A78),
> --
> 2.49.0.906.g1f30a19c02-goog
>
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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