[PATCH v3 1/2] ARM: Remove AES hwcap for parts affected by errata

James Morse james.morse at arm.com
Thu Jul 14 09:15:22 PDT 2022


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.

A57's r0p0 is not affected, add a read_cpuid_variant() helper and
check the revision and variant.

Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h |  5 +++++
 arch/arm/kernel/setup.c        | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
index 775cac3c02bb..5b28611ed459 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ static inline unsigned int __attribute_const__ read_cpuid_implementor(void)
 	return (read_cpuid_id() & 0xFF000000) >> 24;
 }
 
+static inline unsigned int __attribute_const__ read_cpuid_variant(void)
+{
+	return read_cpuid_id() & 0x00f00000;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned int __attribute_const__ read_cpuid_revision(void)
 {
 	return read_cpuid_id() & 0x0000000f;
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
index 1e8a50a97edf..470fa860cd7d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
@@ -501,6 +501,16 @@ static void __init elf_hwcap_fixup(void)
 		return;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * HWCAP2_AES can get the wrong result due to A57's erratum #1742098 or
+	 * A72's #1655431. A57 r0p0 is not affected.
+	 */
+	if ((read_cpuid_part() == ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A57 &&
+	     read_cpuid_variant() != 0 && read_cpuid_revision() != 0) ||
+	    read_cpuid_part() == ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A72) {
+		elf_hwcap2 &= ~HWCAP2_AES;
+	}
+
 	/* Verify if CPUID scheme is implemented */
 	if ((id & 0x000f0000) != 0x000f0000)
 		return;
-- 
2.30.2




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