[PATCH v2 RESEND 1/2] ARM: spectre-v2: Fix potential missing mitigations

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2025-10-29 10:41:51 [+0800], Xie Yuanbin wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:20:05 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > If I apply both patches (of yours) then it sends a
> > signal with disabled interrupts which breaks my PREEMPT_RT case.
> 
> I am not familiar with PREEMPT_RT yet and do not know that signals cannot
> be sent with disabled interrupts and PREEMPT_RT=y.
> I apologize for this.

no worries.

> On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:20:52 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > !LPAE does do_bad_area() -> __do_user_fault() and does not trigger the
> > warning in harden_branch_predictor() because the interrupts are off.
> > On PREEMPT_RT this leads to an error due to accessing spinlock_t from
> > force_sig_fault() with disabled interrupts.
> 
> This seems to be a more serious bug, and may require another patch to
> fix it. Not only !LPAE is affected, but LAPE=y is also affected:
> do_translation_fault() -> do_bad_area() -> __do_user_fault()
> This code path seems very easy to trigger.

correct.

> > I guess the requirement is to invoke harden_branch_predictor() on the
> > same CPU that triggered the page_fault, right? Couldn't we then move
> > harden_branch_predictor() a little bit earlier, invoke it in the >=
> > TASK_SIZE case and then enable interrupts if they were enabled?
> >
> > That would make me happy ;)
> 
> This seems to only fix the warning in harden_branch_predictor, but cannot
> fix the issue of sending signals with disabled interrupts mentioned above.
> 
> What about adding:

I was planning to just move it up. Let me try to form something in a
bit.

> Xie Yuanbin

Sebastian