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powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Mon, 21 May 2018 23:00:00 +0000 (09:00 +1000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 May 2018 03:45:31 +0000 (20:45 -0700)
commitf11c9fdd95bda572628238373fb15bb31ab41afb
tree3ae572e2057a26a151957ccada417251121f41aa
parenta1ba8e520fe618a8ec19859f0c186316373be0b4
powerpc/64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit

On some CPUs we can prevent a vulnerability related to store-to-load
forwarding by preventing store forwarding between privilege domains,
by inserting a barrier in kernel entry and exit paths.

This is known to be the case on at least Power7, Power8 and Power9
powerpc CPUs.

Barriers must be inserted generally before the first load after moving
to a higher privilege, and after the last store before moving to a
lower privilege, HV and PR privilege transitions must be protected.

Barriers are added as patch sections, with all kernel/hypervisor entry
points patched, and the exit points to lower privilge levels patched
similarly to the RFI flush patching.

Firmware advertisement is not implemented yet, so CPU flush types
are hard coded.

Thanks to Michal Suchánek for bug fixes and review.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/exception-64s.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/feature-fixups.h
arch/powerpc/include/asm/security_features.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S
arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c